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Meaning of "message" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MESSAGE

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin missāticum (unattested) something sent, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere to send.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MESSAGE

message  [ˈmɛsɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MESSAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Message is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb message in English.

WHAT DOES MESSAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

message

Message

A message is a discrete unit of communication intended by the source for consumption by some recipient or group of recipients. A message may be delivered by various means, including courier, telegraphy, and electronic bus. A message can be the content of a broadcast. An interactive exchange of messsages forms a conversation. One example of a message is a communiqué, which is a brief report or statement released by a public agency.

Definition of message in the English dictionary

The first definition of message in the dictionary is a communication, usually brief, from one person or group to another. Other definition of message is an implicit meaning or moral, as in a work of art. Message is also a formal communiqué.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MESSAGE

PRESENT

Present
I message
you message
he/she/it messages
we message
you message
they message
Present continuous
I am messaging
you are messaging
he/she/it is messaging
we are messaging
you are messaging
they are messaging
Present perfect
I have messaged
you have messaged
he/she/it has messaged
we have messaged
you have messaged
they have messaged
Present perfect continuous
I have been messaging
you have been messaging
he/she/it has been messaging
we have been messaging
you have been messaging
they have been messaging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I messaged
you messaged
he/she/it messaged
we messaged
you messaged
they messaged
Past continuous
I was messaging
you were messaging
he/she/it was messaging
we were messaging
you were messaging
they were messaging
Past perfect
I had messaged
you had messaged
he/she/it had messaged
we had messaged
you had messaged
they had messaged
Past perfect continuous
I had been messaging
you had been messaging
he/she/it had been messaging
we had been messaging
you had been messaging
they had been messaging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will message
you will message
he/she/it will message
we will message
you will message
they will message
Future continuous
I will be messaging
you will be messaging
he/she/it will be messaging
we will be messaging
you will be messaging
they will be messaging
Future perfect
I will have messaged
you will have messaged
he/she/it will have messaged
we will have messaged
you will have messaged
they will have messaged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been messaging
you will have been messaging
he/she/it will have been messaging
we will have been messaging
you will have been messaging
they will have been messaging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would message
you would message
he/she/it would message
we would message
you would message
they would message
Conditional continuous
I would be messaging
you would be messaging
he/she/it would be messaging
we would be messaging
you would be messaging
they would be messaging
Conditional perfect
I would have message
you would have message
he/she/it would have message
we would have message
you would have message
they would have message
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been messaging
you would have been messaging
he/she/it would have been messaging
we would have been messaging
you would have been messaging
they would have been messaging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you message
we let´s message
you message
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to message
Past participle
messaged
Present Participle
messaging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MESSAGE


abusage
æbˈjuːsɪdʒ
brassage
ˈbræsɪdʒ
disusage
dɪsˈjuːsɪdʒ
dosage
ˈdəʊsɪdʒ
expressage
ɪkˈsprɛsɪdʒ
malaxage
ˈmɑːlæksɪdʒ
misusage
ˌmɪsˈjuːsɪdʒ
off-message
ˌɒfˈmesɪdʒ
overdosage
ˌəʊvəˈdəʊsɪdʒ
passage
ˈpæsɪdʒ
presage
ˈprɛsɪdʒ
repassage
riːˈpæsɪdʒ
rite-of-passage
ˌraɪtəvˈpæsɪdʒ
sausage
ˈsɒsɪdʒ
spousage
ˈspaʊsɪdʒ
surplusage
ˈsɜːpləsɪdʒ
Telemessage
ˈtɛlɪˌmɛsɪdʒ
usage
ˈjuːsɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MESSAGE

mess
mess about
mess deck
mess dress
mess gear
mess hall
mess jacket
mess kit
mess mate
mess of pottage
mess tin
mess-up
message bag
message board
message stick
message switching
Messager
messaging
Messalina
messaline

WORDS THAT END LIKE MESSAGE

bird of passage
dressage
error message
get the message
head massage
instant message
massage
middle passage
Northwest Passage
off message
on message
rite de passage
rite of passage
safe passage
sage
stone massage
subliminal message
Swedish massage
telephone message
text message
vernissage

Synonyms and antonyms of message in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MESSAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «message» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of message

Translation of «message» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MESSAGE

Find out the translation of message to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of message from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «message» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

讯息
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mensaje
570 millions of speakers

English

message
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संदेश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رِسَالَةٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сообщение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mensagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বার্তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

message
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mesej
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Botschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

伝言
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메시지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pesen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thông điệp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செய்தி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संदेश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mesaj
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

messaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wiadomość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повідомлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mesaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μήνυμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boodskap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meddelande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melding
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of message

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MESSAGE»

The term «message» is very widely used and occupies the 733 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of message
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MESSAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «message» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «message» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about message

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «MESSAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word message.
1
Kevin J. Anderson
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
2
David Axelrod
I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.
3
Jose Maria Aznar
Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.
4
Justin Bieber
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
5
Wade Boggs
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
6
Arthur Boyd
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
7
Peter M. Brant
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
8
Cara Buono
Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
9
Jose Canseco
Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.
10
Dennis Cardoza
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESSAGE»

Discover the use of message in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to message and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Carry This Message: A Guide for Big Book Sponsorship
A companion book to "The Steps We Took" offers tools for helping others find recovery and new life through the AA Twelve Step program.
Joe McQ, 2002
2
You Are the Message
"You are the message." What does that mean, exactly? It means that when you communicate with someone, it's not just the words you choose to send to the other person that make up the message.
Roger Ailes, 2012
3
The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
For a limited time only, buy this special 10th anniversary edition of The Message that makes the miraculous, the tragic, and the triumphant stories of the Bible come alive in a new way.
Eugene H. Peterson, Paul Mascarella, 2011
4
Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
The nearest thing to a full length book ever written by Marcus Garvey. Three years before his death in 1937, Garvey assembled his most trusted organisers for an intensive, secret month-long course of instruction.
Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin, 1986
5
Message to the Blackman in America
Originally published: Chicago: Muhammad Mosque of Islam No. 2., 1965.
Elijah Muhammad, 1973
6
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
For parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book.
Xinran, 2011
7
Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Global ...
The book also looks to the future, as a large number of new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone and ...
Friedhelm Hillebrand, 2010
8
Java Message Service
Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor-agnostic specification will help you write messaging-based applications using IBM's MQ, Progress Software's SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging ...
Mark Richards, Richard Monson-Haefel, David A Chappell, 2009
9
Animorphs #4: The Message
The wildly popular series by K.A. Applegate is back! The first six books of Animorphs return, with striking new lenticular covers that morph. It all started with the dreams. But Cassie didn't pay much attention to them.
K.A. Applegate, 2011
10
Museum, Media, Message
This volume considers in depth the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication - museums as media, museums and audience and the evaluation of museums.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MESSAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term message is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Conservative news anchor's message to Obama goes viral
A conservative news anchor has some words for President Obama. Tomi Lahren, an anchor at One American News Network, slammed ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
2
Forget Rihanna — the Best Video With a Social Message Wasn't …
Still, if there's one category that sometimes highlights some more unexpected choices, it's Best Video With a Social Message. This is the award ... «SPIN, Jul 15»
3
Ohio Gov. Kasich joins GOP race with message of conservatism …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich joined the crowded 2016 GOP presidential race Tuesday, offering an optimistic message that ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
4
Congress Must Send a Message and Reject Disastrous Iran Deal
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, third from right, and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon arrive on a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter at a ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
5
Drake Writes Heartbreaking Message To A Young Fan Who Passed …
... paid his condolences to one of his biggest fans who died during a school sports trip to Vancouver. See the rapper's heartfelt message here. «Hollywood Life, Jul 15»
6
A message for email: Your days might be numbered
Everyone hates email. It wastes our time, too much of it spam. It's ugly, it's slow, it's unreliable. And did I mention the spam? Perhaps the worst ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
7
BART's message on Transbay Tube shutdown: Stay home if you can
Staying home will be a great idea when BART shuts down its Transbay Tube for five days this summer. During the shutdowns, which will take ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
8
94-year-old completes bucket list by spreading simple message
FRANKLIN, Tenn – When it comes to creating a bucket list, many people may include things like traveling to distant lands or skydiving to make ... «kfor.com, Jul 15»
9
Tom Brady's Birthday Message For Gisele 2015
To celebrate his wife's birthday, Tom Brady took to Facebook to share a sweet message and a funny photo. Gisele Bündchen turned 35 on ... «POPSUGAR, Jul 15»
10
Unlikely film has such a conservative message, Blaze host is asking …
Unlikely film has such a conservative message, Blaze host is asking: 'How did this movie get made?' Jul. 21, 2015 7:42pm Erica Ritz ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»

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