Interpreter Definition
ĭn-tûrprĭ-tər
interpreters
noun
interpreters
A person who interprets; specif., a person whose work is translating a foreign language orally, as in a conversation between people speaking different languages.
Webster's New World
One who gives or expounds an interpretation.
American Heritage
A computer program that translates and executes, statement by statement, a program written in a high-level language.
Webster's New World
(figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- voice
- representative
- spokesperson
- translator
- interpretive program
- language expert
- linguist
- simultaneous interpreter
- glossographer
- professor
- philosopher
- demonstrator
- speaker
- delegate
- scholar
Other Word Forms of Interpreter
Noun
Singular:
interpreter
Plural:
interpretersOrigin of Interpreter
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From Middle English, from Latin interpretor (“to explain, expound, understand”), from interpres (“agent, translator”).
From Wiktionary
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.
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