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COMMUNICATOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who communicates with others
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("communicator" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicator"):
propagandist (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)
disseminator; propagator (someone who spreads the news)
publiciser; publicist; publicizer (someone who publicizes)
quoter (a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations)
rambler (a person whose speech or writing is not well organized)
newsman; newsperson; reporter (a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories)
answerer; respondent; responder (someone who responds)
bawler; bellower; roarer; screamer; screecher; shouter; yeller (someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice)
sender; transmitter (someone who transmits a message)
signaler; signaller (someone who communicates by signals)
signer (someone who can use sign language to communicate)
swearer (someone who takes a solemn oath)
comforter; sympathiser; sympathizer (a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune)
mental telepathist; mind reader; telepathist; thought-reader (someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly)
twaddler (someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle)
waffler (someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner)
warner (someone who gives a warning to others)
waver (someone who communicates by waving)
wirer (someone who sends a telegram)
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
alarmist (a person who alarms others needlessly)
allegoriser; allegorizer (someone who communicates in allegories)
announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)
articulator (someone who pronounces words)
affirmer; asserter; asseverator; avower; declarer (someone who claims to speak the truth)
avower (someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly)
broadcaster (someone who broadcasts on radio or television)
conferee (a member of a conference)
conferrer (someone who converses or confers (as in a conference))
confessor (someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves))
correspondent; letter writer (someone who communicates by means of letters)
gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)
hisser (someone who communicates disapproval by hissing)
informant; source (a person who supplies information)
extoller; laudator; lauder (someone who communicates high praise)
negotiant; negotiator; treater (someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement))
inducer; persuader (someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on)
populariser; popularizer; vulgariser; vulgarizer (someone who makes something attractive to the general public)
presenter (someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.))
promisee (a person to whom a promise is made)
promiser; promisor (a person who makes a promise)
Derivation:
communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
communicate (transmit information)
communicate (be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas)
