[syn: translator, translating program]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Translator \Trans*lat"or\, n. [L. translator: cf. F.
translateur.]
1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another
language; one who expresses the sense of words in one
language by equivalent words in another.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Teleg.) A repeating instrument. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
translator
n 1: a person who translates written messages from one language
to another [syn: translator, transcriber]
2: someone who mediates between speakers of different languages
[syn: interpreter, translator]
3: a program that translates one programming language into
another [syn: translator, translating program]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "translator":
allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic,
cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer,
demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor,
emendator, emender, euhemerist, exegesist, exegete, exegetist,
explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, go-between,
guide, hermeneut, interpreter, lexicographer, metaphrast,
oneirocritic, paraphrast, scholiast, textual critic