Meaning & use

Deliverer

noun·Everyday

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A person who delivers goods, messages, or services, or one who rescues or saves others.

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The pizza deliverer arrived just as the movie was starting.

The novel casts the young knight as the deliverer of his people from tyranny.

A note on using this word

"Deliverer" carries two distinct senses—the everyday courier who brings goods, and the older, more dramatic sense of a rescuer or savior, as in religious and heroic literature.

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