translator

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trans=la=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

translator, n. [L. translator: cf. F. translateur.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A repeating instrument.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

translator, n.
1 a person who translates from one language into another.
2 a television relay transmitter.
3 a program that translates from one (esp. programming) language into another.

THESAURUS

translator

allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, lexicographer, metaphrast, oneirocritic, paraphrast, scholiast, textual critic