- 1街頭公告員、傳令人（舊時搖鈴當街喊消息的人）
A crier, in this sense, is a town crier: a person whose job was to walk through the streets, often with a bell, and shout out the news and official notices. Before newspapers and phones, this is how a town heard what the mayor or the king wanted everyone to know — “hear ye, hear ye”. The job is mostly ceremonial now. You still see a crier at British festivals and ceremonies, in old-fashioned clothes, reading a proclamation for show; that is not how real news travels any more. The word is formal-historical as a job title, a little colourful, not an everyday job word. Though actually, crier can also mean “someone who cries” with tears — but that is not this entry. Here it is the official shouter of news.
組成From Middle English criour / crier, from Old French crieor (modern French crieur), from the verb crier, “to shout”. By the look of the English word, cry + -er, and that is a fair way to see it: someone who cries out the news.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Criername
- 1
A surname.
criernoun/ˈkɹaɪɚ/
- 1
One who cries.
- Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.
- 2
An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。