From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmessiahmes‧si‧ah /məˈsaɪə/ noun [singular] 1 → the Messiah2 LEADERsomeone who people believe will solve all their problems The club was in desperate need of a new footballing messiah.
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messiah• When he visited the United States in 1882, he was accorded a welcome by the faithful befitting a messiah.• But they're not hip-hop messiahs come to lead a supposedly stagnating genre out of the dark ages.• A year and a half before, he had become famous overnight, as an industrial messiah.• Dilbert is the new management messiah.• And, like all peasant messiahs, Mao promised a society in which all men would be equal.• The media made him out to be a political messiah.• When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.Origin messiah (1100-1200) Hebrew mashiah and Aramaic meshiha, “anointed” 