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Definition of Translator

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

2. Noun. Someone who mediates between speakers of different languages.

3. Noun. A program that translates one programming language into another.

Definition of Translator

1. n. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

Definition of Translator

1. Noun. A person who translates text, film(,) or other material into a different natural language. ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) One that makes a new version of a source material in a different language or format. ¹

3. Noun. (proscribed) A language interpreter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Translator

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Translator

1. 1. One who translates; especially, one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another. 2. A repeating instrument. Origin: L. Translator: cf. F. Translateur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Translator

translational repressor translationally translationary translationese translations translatioun translatitious translative translative case translative cases

translatively translatives translatological translatology translatome translator (current term) translatorese translatoreses translators translatorship

translatorships translatory translatory movement translatour translatours translatress translatresses translatrices translatrix translavation

Literary usage of Translator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Nor is the translator exposed to the biographer's weakness for overvaluing his subject. He pretends to no discoveries, has taken no brief for or against the ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"The translation was made at the suggestion of Bunsen, whose letter to the translator is prefixed to the volume (cf. BUNSEN, Memoir, ¡i. 342-6). ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"... to "The Shakespeare Society's Papers," was the earliest English translator of any extensive portion of Virgil. Little has hitherto been known about him. ..."

4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... you are more oblig'd to tl» translator than the poet. For Homer, as I ol- serv'd before, can move rage better thai b* can pity : he stirs up the ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"By ROBERT GREENHOW, translator and Librarian to the Department of Stale of the United States ; Author of " A History of Oregon and California." pp. 42. ..."

6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1833)
"ART. VI. — Faust : a Dramatic Poem by Goethe. Translated into English Prose, with remarks on former Translations and Notes. By the translator of ..."

7. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1846)
"By Robert Greenhow, translator and Librarian to the Department of State. Pp. 221. New York and London, 1840. 2. The History of Oregon and California, ..."

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