ASSIMILATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assimilator mean? 

• ASSIMILATOR (noun)
  The noun ASSIMILATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

  Familiarity information: ASSIMILATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSIMILATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

assimilator; learner; scholar

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

memoriser; memorizer (a person who learns by rote)

quick study; sponge (someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily)

dweeb; grind; nerd; swot; wonk (an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious)

tutee (learns from a tutor)

Derivation:

assimilate (take up mentally)