Word Meanings - INTERPRETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTERPRETER)

• Commentator
• Interpreter
• explainer
• note-maker
• scholiast
• expositor
• glossary
• elucidator
• Exponent
• propounder
• advocate
• representative

Related words: (words related to INTERPRETER)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• ELUCIDATORY
  Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
• EXPONENT
  A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated; Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power,
• PROPOUNDER
  One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.
• EXPOSITOR
  One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• EXPOSITORY
  Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
• EXPONENTIAL
  Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation,
• ELUCIDATOR
  One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• COMMENTATORIAL
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• SCHOLIAST
  A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.
• GLOSSARY
  A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• SCHOLIASTIC
  Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• INTERPRETER
  One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.
• COMMENTATOR
  One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.