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transliterator

transliterator noun: one who transliterates.

Noun

transliterator (plural transliterators)

  1. One who transliterates.
    • The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original.1986 April 28, J[onathan] J[eremy] Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1

Forms of transliterator

pluraltransliterators

Origin of transliterator

From transliterate + -or.

Questions about transliterator

What does transliterator mean?
Transliterator means one who transliterates.
What part of speech is transliterator?
Transliterator is a noun.
What is the plural of transliterator?
The plural of transliterator is transliterators.

Words near transliterator in the dictionary

  1. transliterates
  2. transliterating
  3. transliteration
  4. transliterational
  5. transliterations
  6. transliterator
  7. transliterators
  8. translits
  9. translits.
  10. transload
  11. transloaded

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