bearer

(noun)

noun

1. someone whose employment involves carrying something

Similar word(s): carrier, toter

Definition categories: person, traveler, traveller

2. a messenger who bears or presents

- a bearer of good tidings

Definition categories: person, courier, messenger

3. one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral

Similar word(s): pallbearer

Definition categories: person, griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower

4. the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it

- the bond was marked `payable to bearer'

Similar word(s): holder

Definition categories: person, capitalist

Sentences with bearer as a noun:

- I promise to pay the bearer on demand.

- a good bearer