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noun
Someone who, or something that communicates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays or artificial speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A usually portable communications device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
a person who communicates with others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: alarmist, allegorizer, allegoriser, announcer, articulator, asserter, declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower, broadcaster, conferee, conferrer, confessor, correspondent, letter writer, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger, hisser, informant, source, laudator, lauder, extoller, negotiator, negotiant, treater, persuader, inducer, popularizer, populariser, vulgarizer, vulgariser, presenter, promisee, promiser, promisor, propagandist, propagator, disseminator, publicist, publicizer, publiciser, quoter, rambler, reporter, newsman, newsperson, respondent, responder, answerer, roarer, bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller, sender, transmitter, signaler, signaller, signer, swearer, sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter, telepathist, thought-reader, mental telepathist, mind reader, twaddler, waffler, warner, waver, wirer, writer, author
History
From communicate + -or, after Latin commūnicātor (“partner, sharer, participant”); compare Middle French communicateur (“sharer, participant”).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
