examiner
/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/
examiner noun: a person who investigates someone or something.
Noun
examiner (plural examiners)
- A person who investigates someone or something.
- Younger [Customs] examiners, who, perhaps, have not yet acquired the intuition resulting from years of experience, seem partly responsible for the closer examination of incoming luggage. Not only is this closer scrutiny arousing feelings of resentment among passengers, but it is causing serious...1951 November, “Delays to Boat Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 719
- A person who sets an examination.
- A person who marks an examination.
examiner meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
examiner in Hindi
- person who investigates someone or something
- जाँचकर्ता jā̃ckartā
- person who marks an examination
- परीक्षक parīkṣak
examiner in Tamil
- தேர்வாளர், சோதனையாளர், பரிசோதகர்
examiner in Telugu
- person who investigates someone or something
- పరీక్షకుడు parīkṣakuḍu
examiner in Malayalam
- appraiser, tester, questioner
- പരീക്ഷകൻ, പരിശോധകൻ, പരീക്ഷയുടെ വിധികർത്താവ്, നിരീക്ഷകൻ, വിചാരകൻ, അന്വേഷകൻ
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- examiner in Kannada
- ಒರೆಗ
- examiner in Sanskrit
- परीक्षक parīkṣaka
Forms of examiner
| plural | examiners |
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Origin of examiner
From examine + -er.
Words formed from examiner
- driving examiner
- examinership
- external examiner
- interexaminer
- intraexaminer
- medical examiner
- subexaminer
- superexaminer
Questions about examiner
- What does examiner mean?
- Examiner means a person who investigates someone or something.
- What is examiner in Hindi?
- Examiner in Hindi is जाँचकर्ता (jā̃ckartā), परीक्षक (parīkṣak). See Examiner meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is examiner?
- Examiner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce examiner?
- Examiner is pronounced /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/.
- What is the plural of examiner?
- The plural of examiner is examiners.
Words near examiner in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: examiner (page history and authors); examiner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); examiner (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); examiner (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); परीक्षक (Sanskrit) (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.
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