Word Meanings - VAN-COURIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.

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• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• COURIER
  1. A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public busuness. The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose. Knolles. 2. An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make
• AVANT-GUARD
  The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.
• AVANT
  The front of an army. See Van.
• PRECURSORY
  Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
• AVANT-COURIER
  A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.
• ADVANCER
  1. One who advances; a promoter. 2. A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.
• PRECURSORSHIP
  The position or condition of a precursor. Ruskin.
• ADVANCEMENT
  Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
• PRECURSOR
  One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul. Buckminster. Syn. -- Predecessor; forerunner; harbinger;
• VANT-COURIER
  An avant-courier. See Van-courier. Holland.
• VAN-COURIER
  One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.
• DISADVANCE
  To draw back, or cause to draw back. Spenser.
• PARAVANT; PARAVANT
  1. In front; publicly. Spenser. 2. Beforehand; first. Spenser.
• VAUNT-COURIER
  See SHAK
• READVANCE
  To advance again.
• SAVANT
  A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
• IRRELAVANT
  Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case. -- Ir*rel"a*vant*ly, adv.