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DECIPHERER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

reader (a person who can read; a literate person)

Derivation:

decipher (convert code into ordinary language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text

Synonyms:

decipherer; decoder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decipherer"):

cryptanalyst; cryptographer; cryptologist (decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms)

Derivation:

decipher (convert code into ordinary language)

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