Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that communicates.
  • noun An electronic device enabling individuals with physical disabilities to communicate through LED displays, printed or electronic messages, or synthetic speech.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which communicates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who communicates.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who, or something that communicates
  • noun Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays or artificial speech

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who communicates with others

Etymologies

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to communicate + -or

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Examples

  • Feynman's excellence as a communicator is a topic all to itself.

    Richard Feynman, his diagrams and his bongos 2008

  • The first step to becoming a great communicator is to not assume that you already are!

    Social Business, the Golden Rule, and Open Empathy Organization 2010

  • It had a brief revival in the '80's (E.T. gets the idea for his communicator from a Buck Rogers strip), and the character has been adapted numerous times for radio, television, and movies.

    Frank Miller Heading Into Space As ‘Buck Rogers’ Director » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • The Sunday school version of the relationship between Moses, the lawgiver, and Aron, the communicator, is one of fortuitous complementarity, a Hebrew Bobby and Jack Kennedy.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • The Sunday school version of the relationship between Moses, the lawgiver, and Aron, the communicator, is one of fortuitous complementarity, a Hebrew Bobby and Jack Kennedy.

    This Is Cinerama Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • To be clear in a complex world, the rational linear communicator is forced to either ridiculously oversimplify a situation or disappear into mumbo-jumbo bizspeak.

    Shark Attack! 2005

  • Suit yourself, but this strategic communicator is am-scraying.

    One of Our Whales Is Missing 2005

  • Suit yourself, but this strategic communicator is am-scraying.

    One of Our Whales Is Missing 2005

  • To be clear in a complex world, the rational linear communicator is forced to either ridiculously oversimplify a situation or disappear into mumbo-jumbo bizspeak.

    Shark Attack! 2005

  • To be clear in a complex world, the rational linear communicator is forced to either ridiculously oversimplify a situation or disappear into mumbo-jumbo bizspeak.

    Shark Attack! 2005

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