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noun
An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
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noun
One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
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noun
A document containing such name assignments.
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noun
An early form of substitution cipher.
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History
From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”).
Across languages
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