commissionaire
commissionaire is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- apparitor
- arbitrator
- attache
- attorney
- auctioneer
- bag
- bagman
- bailiff
- bearer
- bellman
- boy
- broker
- business
- cable
- carrier
- charge
- chore
- clerk
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissioner
- committee
- consignee
- consul
- corps
- correspondent
- courier
- crier
- curator
- dak
- delegate
- delivery
- deputy
- diplomat
- diplomate
- diplomatist
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is commissionaire.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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