relator

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=la=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

relator, n. [ L.: cf. F. relateur. See Relate.].

•  One who relates; a relater.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]
•  A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

relator, n.
1 var. of RELATER.
2 Law a person who makes a relation (see RELATION 6).

Etymology

L (as RELATE)

THESAURUS

relator

anecdotist, fableist, fabler, fabulist, fictionist, mythmaker, mythopoet, narrator, novelettist, novelist, raconteur, reciter, recounter, romancer, romancist, sagaman, short-story writer, spinner of yarns, storier, storyteller, taleteller, teller of tales, word painter, yarn spinner

ROGET THESAURUS

relator

Accusation

N accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation, crimination, incrimination, accrimination, recrimination, tu quoque argument, invective, denunciation, denouncement, libel, challenge, citation, arraignment, impeachment, appeachment, indictment, bill of indictment, true bill, lawsuit, condemnation, gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem, scandal, scandalum magnatum, accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff, relator, informer, appellant, accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent, litigant, accusing, accusatory, accusative, imputative, denunciatory, recriminatory, criminatory, accused, suspected, under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance, in custody, in detention, in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention, accusable, imputable, indefensible, inexcusable, unpardonable, unjustifiable, vicious, Int, look at home, tu quoque, the breath of accusation kills an innocent name, thou can'st not say I did it.