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relater

relater is the alternative form of relator.

Meaning of relator

Noun

relator (plural relators)

  1. One who relates, or tells; a narrator.
    • He needs almost a miraculous faith to be able to remove mountains, yea, to make the sun stand still, and sometimes to go back, who will undertake to accord the contradictions in time and place between the several relators of this history.1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-history of Britain, 1845, J. S. Brewer (editor), Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain, Volume 1, page 54
  2. One who relates, associates, or links things together.
  3. A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
  4. An expression of the identity element of a group as a product of generators, used in a presentation (type of specification) of the group.

Forms of relater

pluralrelaters

Origin of relater

From relate + -er.

Words that rhyme with relater

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Questions about relater

What is relater the alternative form of?
Relater is the alternative form of relator.

Words near relater in the dictionary

  1. related right
  2. related rights
  3. relatedly
  4. relatedness
  5. relatednesses
  6. relater
  7. relateralization
  8. relaters
  9. relates
  10. relatest
  11. relateth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: relater (page history and authors); relator (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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