Word.ws English Dictionary

dictater

dictater noun: one who dictates; one who gives dictation.

Noun

dictater (plural dictaters)

  1. One who dictates; one who gives dictation.
    • The dictater frequently misreads or mistalks a word. If the error is plain, and leaves no room for doubt that it is an error, don't copy that error.1904 October, Charles G. Mutzenbergh, “The Stenographer”, in The Phonographic Magazine and National Shorthand Reporter
    • When, however, in any particular case, he has no assured means of determining the true spelling of the name, he should always quietly interrupt the dictater with the request, " Spell it , please," and then write the name in longhand from the dictater's spelling.1910, Jerome Bird Howard, The Phonographic Amanuensis, page 210

Forms of dictater

pluraldictaters

Origin of dictater

From dictate + -er.

Questions about dictater

What does dictater mean?
Dictater means one who dictates; one who gives dictation.
What part of speech is dictater?
Dictater is a noun.
What is the plural of dictater?
The plural of dictater is dictaters.

Words near dictater in the dictionary

  1. dictat
  2. dictatable
  3. dictate
  4. dictated
  5. dictated but not read
  6. dictater
  7. dictaters
  8. dictates
  9. dictatest
  10. dictateth
  11. dictating

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dictater (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dictater.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dictater. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.