STENOGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stenographer mean? 

• STENOGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun STENOGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)

  Familiarity information: STENOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENOGRAPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

amanuensis; shorthand typist; stenographer

Hypernyms ("stenographer" is a kind of...):

secretarial assistant; secretary (an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization)

Derivation:

stenography (the act or art of writing in shorthand)

stenography (a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system)

 Context examples 

You might like to study and be a stenographer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"You know how a thousand times better than any stenographer. And now I want to give you some advice."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He could not believe that a sane editor could be guilty of such maltreatment, and his favorite hypothesis was that his poems must have been doctored by the office boy or the stenographer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)