translator
Other forms: translators
A translator is someone who conveys material communicated in one language such as English into another language — like French, Chinese, or Spanish — without losing the literal meaning or nuances of the original work.
Ideally, a translator is fluent in at least two languages, so they can translate what is being said in one language into another language without changing its original meaning. The Latin root of translator is translatus, which means "carried over," and a translator who's good at her job carries the meaning over into a completely different language.
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a person who translates written messages from one language to anothersynonyms: transcriber
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someone who mediates between speakers of different languagessynonyms: interpreterexamples:Edward FitzgeraldEnglish poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)Benjamin JowettEnglish classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893)William TindaleEnglish translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)Bishop Ulfilasa Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)types:dragomanan interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)symboliser, symbolist, symbolizersomeone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbolstype of:go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator, mediatora negotiator who acts as a link between parties
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a program that translates one programming language into anothersynonyms: translating programtype of:computer program, computer programme, program, programme(computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
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