What is another word for translator?

Pronunciation: [tɹanslˈe͡ɪtə] (IPA)

A translator is a professional who works to convert written words from one language to another. However, there are other terms that are used interchangeably with the word "translator." One such term is an interpreter, which is mainly used for oral translation. A language specialist is another term that is recognized for a person who can accurately translate words and phrases from one language to another. Other related words that can be used as synonyms for the word translator include language expert, linguistic specialist, language translator, and translation expert. Whichever term is used, the job of the translator remains the same - to bring a clear and accurate meaning from one language to another.

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Usage examples for Translator

The story of the Hypnerotomachia, or "Strife of Love in a Dream," as its English translator called it, is greatly influenced by the Renaissance interest in antique architecture and art which is evident in so many of its illustrations.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
We may guess, moreover, that both as translator and publisher he kept his finger on the pulse of well-to-do book-buyers to an extent to which there is no parallel for the next two centuries.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Towards the beginning of Elizabeth's reign a small group of critics bring to the problems of the translator both technical scholarship and alert, original minds, but apparently the new and significant ideas which they offer have little or no effect on the general course of theory.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos

Famous quotes with Translator

  • As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.
    David M. Brown
  • One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diament
  • What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
    Robert Fitzgerald
  • And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
    Cornelia Funke
  • The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
    Kim Hunter

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