TRANSLATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does translator mean? 

• TRANSLATOR (noun)
  The noun TRANSLATOR has 3 senses:

1. a person who translates written messages from one language to another

2. someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

3. a program that translates one programming language into another

  Familiarity information: TRANSLATOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSLATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who translates written messages from one language to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

transcriber; translator

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

linguist; polyglot (a person who speaks more than one language)

Derivation:

translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

interpreter; translator

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

go-between; intercessor; intermediary; intermediator; mediator (a negotiator who acts as a link between parties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "translator"):

dragoman (an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government))

symboliser; symbolist; symbolizer (someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols)

Instance hyponyms:

Edward Fitzgerald; Fitzgerald (English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883))

Benjamin Jowett; Jowett (English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893))

Tindal; Tindale; Tyndale; William Tindal; William Tindale; William Tyndale (English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536))

Bishop Ulfila; Bishop Ulfilas; Bishop Wulfila; Ulfila; Ulfilas; Wulfila (a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382))

Derivation:

translate (restate (words) from one language into another language)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A program that translates one programming language into another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

translating program; translator

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

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)

 Context examples 

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(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)