message noun [C] (INFORMATION)
A1
a short piece of information in written, spoken, or electronic form that you send to someone or leave for them when you cannot speak to them directly:
- She wasn't in so I left a message on her answerphone.
- Can you give Jo a message for me? Tell her I've booked a tennis court for 6.30.
- When I got home, I found a mysterious message sellotaped to the front door.
- The president has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of the dead soldiers.
- The message on the card said 'Be my Valentine'.
- (the) word is idiom
- advance notice
- advance warning
- advertisement
- aide-mémoire
- ammunition
- give someone notice
- glad tidings
- go up phrasal verb
- gory
- piece of information
- placard
- playbill
- primer
- propaganda
- sidelight
- the gory details idiom
- Wordle
- X, x
- Xs and Os idiom
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message noun [C] (IDEA)
send a message We need to send a clear message that the release of pollution into our rivers will not be tolerated.
drive a message home They are keen to drive the message home that breaches of rules will be punished.
mixed message We're getting mixed messages (= opposite ideas and information) about the health risks from sunlight.
get the message informal
to understand what someone is trying to tell you, even if that person is not expressing themselves directly:
- This is the message that we want to get across to the public.
- The party's electoral message may be obscured by the glitz and glamour of its presentation.
- The Gospel message is one of personal salvation.
- The government's message about the dangers of smoking seems to have struck home.
- The underlying message of the movie is that love transcends everything else.
- absolutist
- accepted wisdom
- Afrocentric
- agnosticism
- along ethnic, political, etc. lines
- contention
- gaze
- gender stereotype
- habit of mind
- have a high opinion of someone/something
- have a low opinion of someone/something
- have a/the feeling idiom
- ideological
- perception
- perspective
- persuasion
- philosophy
- point of view
- the other side of the coin idiom
- vantage point
