bearer
/ˈbeɹɚ/ sustantivo C1En español: portador, portadora
- One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
- Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
- One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment. · I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
- A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
- A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
- A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.
- A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
- A tree or plant yielding fruit. · a good bearer
Plural bearers
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He had a large blue envelope in his hand, and was evidently the bearer of a message.
“How could that bring me into trouble, sir?” asked Dantès; “for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer.
“If it be so,” replied the magistrate, “rely upon every reparation being made; meanwhile, I am the bearer of an order of arrest, and although I most reluctantly perform the task assigned me, it must, nevertheless, be fulfilled.
“‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and the religious institutions of his country, that one named Edmond Dantès, mate of the ship Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and again taken charge of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
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