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Definition of Interpreter
1. Noun. Someone who mediates between speakers of different languages.
Generic synonyms: Go-between, Intercessor, Intermediary, Intermediator, Mediator
Specialized synonyms: Dragoman, Symboliser, Symbolist, Symbolizer
Specialized synonyms: Edward Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Benjamin Jowett, Jowett, Tindal, Tindale, Tyndale, William Tindal, William Tindale, William Tyndale, Bishop Ulfila, Bishop Ulfilas, Bishop Wulfila, Ulfila, Ulfilas, Wulfila
Derivative terms: Interpret, Translate
2. Noun. Someone who uses art to represent something. "She was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles"
Derivative terms: Interpret, Interpret
3. Noun. An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose. "The meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
Generic synonyms: Advocate, Advocator, Exponent, Proponent
Specialized synonyms: Ambassador, Flack, Flack Catcher, Flak, Flak Catcher, Mouth, Mouthpiece, Spokesman, Spokeswoman, Bagman, Commercial Traveler, Commercial Traveller, Roadman, Traveling Salesman, Travelling Salesman
4. Noun. (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time.
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Generic synonyms: Computer Program, Computer Programme, Program, Programme
Derivative terms: Interpret
Definition of Interpreter
1. n. One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.
Definition of Interpreter
1. Noun. One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interpreter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interpreter
Literary usage of Interpreter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Melanchthon drew the portrait of an Evangelical theologian: "A good theologian
and faithful interpreter of the heavenly teaching should be expert first in ..."
2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"EAF EXPERIENCES AS AN Interpreter. WHAT is to become of the interpreter under
the new dispensation? When the sign language shall have been consigned to (and ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1821)
"The Attorney-general asked the interpreter, whether the words meant that she hud
... The interpreter was desired to repeat the German words used by the ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A cicerone; в guide or interpreter to foreigners. (Arabic tar juman, an interpreter ;
whence ... interpreter ..."
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