noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -eɪtə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 1
One who relates, or tells; a relater or narrator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-history of Britain, 1845, J. S. Brewer (editor), Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, Volume 1, page 54, He needs almost a miraculous faith to be able to remove mountains, yea, to make the sun stand still, and sometimes to go back, who will undertake to accord the contradictions in time and place between the several relators of this history.
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noun
Meaning 2
One who relates, associates, or links things together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 4
An expression of the identity element of a group as a product of generators, used in a presentation (type of specification) of the group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: group-theory, mathematics, sciences
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