courier

Other forms of courier

plural

couriers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about courier

What does courier mean?

courier means "a person who carries a message".

How many syllables are in courier?

courier has 3 syllables: co-u-rier. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɝiɚ/.

What is another word for courier?

Close synonyms include messenger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is courier a common word?

courier is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with courier?

1 word rhymes with courier. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.