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An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
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interpreter
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Word definitions for interpreter in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who translates spoken languages; a translator of written texts," late 14c., from Old French interpreteor , from Late Latin interpretatorem , agent noun from interpretari (see interpret ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An interpreter is someone who performs language interpretation (spoken translation). Interpreter may also refer to: Interpreter (computing) The Interpreter , a 2005 movie The Interpreters , a Philadelphia band The Interpreter , also known as Interpreter ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator. 2 (context figuratively English) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit. 3 (context computing English) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN language ▪ In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained. ▪ Can public schools provide sign language interpreters for deaf students attending religious schools? ▪ For example, it may ...
Usage examples of interpreter.
But with the doctor serving as interpreter, Adams learned to his astonishment that as a consequence of the American triumph at Saratoga, France and the United States had already agreed to an alliance.
While Adams conferred with Jefferson and Franklin, Abigail and Nabby toured the city, John Quincy serving as their guide and interpreter.
I therefore answered, in ordinary figures, four lines of which he alone could be the interpreter, not caring much, at least in appearance, how they would be understood.
Although this prince of navigators was in many instances assisted by interpreters in the prosecution of his researches, he still frankly acknowledges that he was at a loss to obtain anything like a clear insight into the puzzling arcana of their faith.
Proxenus had consented, and assigned to us an interpreter named Cleon, and two Boeotian scouts.
The interpreter readily told them that the half-caste had offered him a liberal sum in order to learn what Jack was doing, and what route he intended to follow on leaving Brindisi, but the man declared that he had made no answer, had, indeed, been unable to reply to the questions before Jack was on the scene and making his rush.
After some talk between them and the chief, by means of an interpreter, Roger was brought forward from the rear of the company.
There was no need of an interpreter with him, for he was capable of conversing in a number of languagesGaelic, English, German, French, Latin, Italian, and smatterings of Spanish, Catalonian, Moorish, and Portuguese.
So after a conference with his legates, interpreters and locals, he dispatched Lucius Titurius Sabinus and fifteen cohorts to winter at Termes, Celtiberian in populace but no longer keen to serve Sertorius.
I am assured by the best interpreters in the country, that it bears no affinity to the Cree, Sioux, or Chipewyan languages.
Franklin, dated March 28th, at Fort Chipewyan, where he was engaged procuring hunters and interpreters.
Wentzel to be a great acquisition to our party, as a check on the interpreters, he being one of the few traders who speak the Chipewyan language.
Indians grabbed the mooring ropes and seized the Chukchee interpreter, whom Waxel had brought from Siberia.
Waxel ordered the rope cut, but the Chukchee interpreter called out pitifully to be saved.
He had come with twenty spearmen, his interpreter, and, more surprisingly, with Dinas and Lavaine.