noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/
General-American:/ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/
General-American:[ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ]
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/ɹɪˈpo(ː).ɹtɚ/rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
/ɹɪˈpoə.tə/non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
CMU ARPABET:R IH0 P AO1 R T ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Someone or something that reports.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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3
noun
Meaning 3
A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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5
noun
Meaning 5
A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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6
noun
Meaning 6
a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: newsman, newsperson
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicator
Narrower terms: newswoman, television reporter, television newscaster, TV reporter, TV newsman
History
Etymology
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Across languages
Translations
139 source translations are retained for this English entry.