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CRYPTOGRAPHER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms

Synonyms:

cryptanalyst; cryptographer; cryptologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("cryptographer" is a kind of...):

decipherer; decoder (the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text)

Derivation:

cryptography (act of writing in code or cipher)

cryptography (the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms)

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