Interpreter

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ter=pret=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

Interpreter, n. [Cf. OF. entrepreteur, L. interpretator.].

 One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.  [1913 Webster]
"We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Interpreter, n. a person who interprets, esp. one who translates speech orally.

Etymology

ME f. AF interpretour, OF interpreteur f. LL interpretator -oris (as INTERPRET)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Interpreter

n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

THESAURUS

Interpreter

allegorist, annotator, artist, artiste, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, concert artist, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executant, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between, guide, hermeneut, lexicographer, maestro, metaphrast, minstrel, minstrelsy, music maker, musician, oneirocritic, paraphrast, performer, player, scholiast, soloist, textual critic, translator, tunester, virtuosa, virtuoso

ROGET THESAURUS

Interpreter

Oracle

N oracle, prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex, aruspice, haruspice, haruspex, astrologer, star gazer, Sibyl, Python, Pythoness, Pythia, Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle, Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves, Zadkiel, Old Moore, sorcerer, interpreter, predictor, prognosticator, forecaster, weather forecaster, weatherman, a prophet is without honor in his own country, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.

Interpreter

N interpreter, expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer, demonstrator, scholiast, commentator, annotator, metaphrast, paraphrast, glossarist, prolocutor, spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece, dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman, oneirocritic, (Edipus, oracle).