Standard Lemma guide

reporter

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/
  • General-American: /ɹɪˈpoɹ.tɚ/
  • General-American: [ɹɪˈpoɹ.ɾɚ]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /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

Synonyms: none provided

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

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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.

  • Albanian: reporter — journalist
  • Arabic: مُرَاسِل (murāsil) — journalist
  • Arabic: مُرَاسِلَة (murāsila) — journalist
  • Arabic: صَحَافِيّ (ṣaḥāfiyy) — journalist
  • Arabic: صَحَافِيَّة (ṣaḥāfiyya) — journalist
  • Armenian: թղթակից (tʻġtʻakicʻ) — journalist
  • Armenian: լրագրող (lragroġ) — journalist
  • Asturian: reporteru — journalist
  • Asturian: reportera — journalist
  • Asturian: periodista — journalist
  • Azerbaijani: reportyor — journalist
  • Azerbaijani: müxbir — journalist
  • Bashkir: хәбәрсе (xəbərse) — journalist
  • Belarusian: рэпарцёр (reparcjór) — journalist
  • Belarusian: рэпарцёрка (reparcjórka) — journalist
  • Belarusian: карэспандэ́нт (karespandént) — journalist
  • Belarusian: карэспандэ́нтка (karespandéntka) — journalist
  • Belarusian: журналі́ст (žurnalíst) — journalist
  • Belarusian: журналі́стка (žurnalístka) — journalist
  • Bengali: রিপোর্টার (ripōrṭar) — journalist
  • Bengali: সংবাদদাতা (śoṅbaddata) — journalist
  • Bengali: সাংবাদিক (śaṅbadik) — journalist
  • Bulgarian: репорте́р (reportér) — journalist
  • Bulgarian: репорте́рка (reportérka) — journalist
  • Burmese: သတင်းထောက် (sa.tang:htauk) — journalist
  • Catalan: reporter — journalist
  • Chinese Cantonese: 記者 /记者 (gei3 ze2) — journalist
  • Hakka Chinese: 記者 /记者 (ki-chá) — journalist
  • Chinese: 記者 /记者 (zh-min-nan) — journalist
  • Chinese Mandarin: 記者 /记者 (jìzhě) — journalist
  • Wu Chinese: 記者 /记者 (5ci-tse) — journalist
  • Czech: zpravodaj — journalist
  • Czech: zpravodajka — journalist
  • Czech: reportér — journalist
  • Czech: reportérka — journalist
  • Danish: journalist — journalist
  • Danish: reporter — journalist
  • Dutch: verslaggever — journalist
  • Dutch: reporter — journalist
  • Esperanto: ĵurnalisto — journalist
  • Estonian: reporter — journalist
  • Finnish: toimittaja — journalist
  • Finnish: reportteri — journalist
  • French: reporter — journalist
  • French: rapporteur — journalist
  • French: rapporteuse — journalist
  • French: journaliste — journalist
  • Galician: reporteiro — journalist
  • Galician: reporteira — journalist
  • Georgian: რეპორტიორი (reṗorṭiori) — journalist
  • Georgian: კორესპონდენტი (ḳoresṗondenṭi) — journalist
  • German: Reporter — journalist
  • German: Reporterin — journalist
  • Greek: ρεπόρτερ (repórter) — journalist
  • Greek: δημοσιογράφος (dimosiográfos) — journalist
  • Hindi: संवाददाता (samvāddātā) — journalist
  • Hindi: पत्रकार (patrakār) — journalist
  • Hungarian: riporter — journalist
  • Hungarian: riporternő — journalist
  • Hungarian: tudósító — journalist
  • Indonesian: jurnalis — journalist
  • Italian: giornalista — journalist
  • Italian: inviato — journalist
  • Italian: corrispondente — journalist
  • Japanese: 記者 (kisha) — journalist
  • Japanese: 報告者 (hōkokusha) — journalist
  • Japanese: リポーター (ripōtā) — journalist
  • Japanese: ジャーナリスト (jānarisuto) — journalist
  • Javanese: juru warta — journalist
  • Javanese: juru pawarta — journalist
  • Kazakh: тілші (tılşı) — journalist
  • Khmer: អ្នកកាសែត (nĕək kaasaet) — journalist
  • Khmer: អ្នកសារពត៌មាន (nĕək saapɔədɑɑmiən) — journalist
  • Korean: 기자 (gija) — journalist
  • Korean: 보고자 (bogoja) — journalist
  • Kyrgyz: репортёр (reportyor) — journalist
  • Lao: ນັກຂ່າວ (nak khāo) — journalist
  • Latin: relātor — journalist
  • Latvian: reportieris — journalist
  • Lithuanian: reporteris — journalist
  • Macedonian: репорте́р (reportér) — journalist
  • Macedonian: репорте́рка (reportérka) — journalist
  • Marathi: वार्ताहर (vārtāhar) — journalist
  • Mongolian: сурвалжлагч (survalžlagč) — journalist
  • Norwegian Bokmål: reporter — journalist
  • Iranian Persian: گُزارِشْگَر (gozârešgar) — journalist
  • Iranian Persian: رِپورْتِر (reporter) — journalist
  • Plautdietsch: Zeitungschriewa — journalist
  • Polish: reporter — journalist
  • Polish: reporterka — journalist
  • Portuguese: repórter — journalist
  • Portuguese: jornalista — journalist
  • Romanian: reporter — journalist
  • Romanian: reporteră — journalist
  • Russian: репортёр (reportjór) — journalist
  • Russian: репортёрша (reportjórša) — journalist
  • Russian: корреспонде́нт (korrespondént) — journalist
  • Russian: корреспонде́нтка (korrespondéntka) — journalist
  • Russian: журнали́ст (žurnalíst) — journalist
  • Russian: журнали́стка (žurnalístka) — journalist
  • Serbo-Croatian: репо̀рте̄р — journalist
  • Serbo-Croatian: репо̀рте̄рка — journalist
  • Serbo-Croatian: repòrtēr — journalist
  • Serbo-Croatian: repòrtērka — journalist
  • Slovak: reportér — journalist
  • Slovak: reportérka — journalist
  • Slovak: spravodajca — journalist
  • Slovene: poročevalec — journalist
  • Slovene: poročevalka — journalist
  • Spanish: reportero — journalist
  • Spanish: reportera — journalist
  • Swahili: mwanahabari — journalist
  • Swazi: umbiki — journalist
  • Swedish: reporter — journalist
  • Tagalog: tagapag-ulat — journalist
  • Tajik: репортёр (reportyor) — journalist
  • Tajik: мухбир (muxbir) — journalist
  • Tajik: хабарнигор (xabarnigor) — journalist
  • Tajik: хабарнавис (xabarnavis) — journalist
  • Tatar: хәбәрче (xäbärçe) — journalist
  • Thai: นักข่าว (nák-kàao) — journalist
  • Turkish: muhabir — journalist
  • Turkish: bildirmen — journalist
  • Turkmen: habarçy — journalist
  • Ukrainian: репорте́р (reportér) — journalist
  • Ukrainian: репорте́рка (reportérka) — journalist
  • Ukrainian: кореспонде́нт (korespondént) — journalist
  • Ukrainian: кореспонде́нтка (korespondéntka) — journalist
  • Ukrainian: журналі́ст (žurnalíst) — journalist
  • Ukrainian: журналі́стка (žurnalístka) — journalist
  • Urdu: صَحافِی (sahāfī) — journalist
  • Uyghur: ئاخباراتچى (axbaratchi) — journalist
  • Uzbek: reportyor — journalist
  • Uzbek: muxbir — journalist
  • Vietnamese: phóng viên — journalist
  • Vietnamese: nhà báo — journalist
  • Vietnamese: ký giả — journalist
  • Yiddish: רעפּאָרטער (reporter) — journalist
  • Yiddish: רעפּאָרטערין (reporterin) — journalist
Real reading context

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