noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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CMU ARPABET:AY0 D EH1 N T AH0 F AY2 ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of someone or something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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2
noun
Meaning 2
Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
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3
noun
Meaning 3
One who identifies as a particular type or role; one who says and believes that they are a certain thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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4
noun
Meaning 4
A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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5
noun
Meaning 5
A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
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8
noun
Meaning 8
a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: symbol
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English identify Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English identifier From identify + -er.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
مُعَرِّف
(muʕarrif)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Belarusian:
ідэнтыфіка́тар
(identyfikátar)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Bulgarian:
идентифика́тор
(identifikátor)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Catalan:
identificador
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Chinese Mandarin:
識別碼 /识别码
(shìbiémǎ)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Chinese Mandarin:
標誌符 /标志符
(biāoshífú)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Chinese Mandarin:
标识符
(biāozhìfú)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Czech:
identifikátor
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Estonian:
tuvasti
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Finnish:
tunniste
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
French:
identificateur
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Georgian:
იდენტიფიკატორი
(idenṭipiḳaṭori)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Georgian:
მაიდენტიფიცირებელი
(maidenṭipicirebeli)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
German:
Identifikator
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
German:
Kennzeichen
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Greek:
αναγνωριστικό
(anagnoristikó)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Hindi:
अभिज्ञापक
(abhijñāpak)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Hungarian:
azonosító
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Interlingua:
identificator
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Italian:
identificatore
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Japanese:
識別子
(shikibetsushi)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Kazakh:
сәйкестендіргіш
(säikestendırgış)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Korean:
식별자
(sikbyeolja)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Latin:
identificātor
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Macedonian:
идентифика́тор
(identifikátor)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Norwegian Bokmål:
identifikator
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Persian:
شناسال
(šenâsâl)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Polish:
identyfikator
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Portuguese:
identificador
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Russian:
идентифика́тор
(idɛntifikátor)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Serbo-Croatian:
идентифѝка̄тор
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Serbo-Croatian:
identifìkātor
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Slovak:
identifikátor
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Slovene:
identifikator
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Spanish:
identificador
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Turkish:
tanımlayıcı
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Ukrainian:
ідентифіка́тор
(identyfikátor)
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Vietnamese:
định danh
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Vietnamese:
mã nhận dạng
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Vietnamese:
ký hiệu nhận dạng
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Vietnamese:
kí hiệu nhận dạng
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
Vietnamese:
mã số
— formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc.
