Meanings
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1
noun
a person who rescues or frees others from danger, captivity, or oppression
The prisoners welcomed the advancing general as their deliverer.
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2
noun
a person whose job is to carry goods, letters, or messages to their recipients
The deliverer left the parcel with a neighbor after no one answered the door.
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3
noun
a person who presents, utters, or recites something such as a speech or message
The deliverer of the keynote address spoke without notes.
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Etymology
From Middle English deliverere, built from deliver + the agent suffix -er. Deliver came through Anglo-French delivrer from Late Latin deliberare, 'to set free,' based on Latin liber, 'free.' The rescue sense preserves that origin; the carrier and speaker senses follow the later meaning 'hand over.'