translator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.

   ... the translator of the life and miracles of the saints, like the translator of the relics, need not have been "literate"; nor did he have to be a clerk.

2. 2
   noun

   Synonym of repairer, particularly of leather or cloth goods.

   Boots and Shoes are not to be had, I am told, in sufficient quantity for the demand from the slop-shops, the "translators," and the second-hand dealers. Great quantities of second-hand boots and shoes are sent to Ireland to be "translated" there.

3. 3
   noun

   a program that translates one programming language into another

4. 4
   noun

   someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

5. 5
   noun

   a person who translates written messages from one language to another

6. 6
   noun

   A person or thing that translates meaning from one language into another, particularly

7. 7
   noun

   A used and repaired shoe, boot, or other item of clothing.

8. 8
   noun

   Synonym of repeater, a thing that automatically retransmits an incoming message along a telegraph line.

Etymology

Directly from Latin trānslātor and French translator, and also from Middle English translatour, from Old French translatour, translateur, etc., from Latin trānslātor, from trānslātus (“carried across”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from trānsferō (“carry across”), from trans (“across”) + ferō (“bear, carry”), q.v. Equivalent to translate + -or.