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Definition of Nomenclator
1. n. One who calls persons or things by their names.
Definition of Nomenclator
1. Noun. An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information. ¹
2. Noun. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system. ¹
3. Noun. A document containing such name assignments. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nomenclator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nomenclator
Literary usage of Nomenclator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"AGASSIZ'S ZOOLOGICAL nomenclator. THIS great work,1 which must have cost an
extraordinary amount of labor, is now almost completed. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"have the advantage of possessing a Genera Plantarum complete up to the time of
publication of each of the supplementary parts. nomenclator ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"[A committee was appointed by the Council to secure an American table at the
station.] ON A NEW EDITION OF THE nomenclator ..."
4. The Jesuits, 1534-1921: A History of the Society of Jesus from Its by Thomas Joseph Campbell (1921)
"... Writers — Acta Sanctorum — Jesuit Relations — nomenclator — Periodicals —
Philosophy — Dogmatic, Moral and Ascetic Theology — Canon Law — Exegesis. ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"nomenclator was, with the Romans, a servant, who, at great festivals, informed the
... Those Romans who possessed very many slaves, had one nomenclator, ..."
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