BROADCASTER (broadcaster)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: broadcaster   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadcaster mean? 

• BROADCASTER (noun)
  The noun BROADCASTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who broadcasts on radio or television

2. a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions

  Familiarity information: BROADCASTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADCASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who broadcasts on radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

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

announcer (reads news, commercials on radio or television)

broadcast journalist (a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television)

d.j.; disc jockey; disk jockey; DJ (a person who announces and plays popular recorded music)

telecaster (a television broadcaster)

Derivation:

broadcast (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

broadcaster; spreader

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

mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)

Derivation:

broadcast (sow over a wide area, especially by hand)

 Context examples 

“It’s a small step for the rover, but one giant leap for the Chinese nation,’’ Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the Lunar Exploration Project, said on state broadcaster CCTV, adapting American astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong’s famous message “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” when he stepped onto the lunar surface July 20, 1969.###!!!###

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)