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CRYPTOGRAPHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cryptographer mean?
• CRYPTOGRAPHER (noun)
The noun CRYPTOGRAPHER has 1 sense:
1. decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms
Familiarity information: CRYPTOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cryptanalyst; cryptographer; cryptologist
Hypernyms ("cryptographer" is a kind of...):
decipherer; decoder (the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text)
Derivation:
cryptography (act of writing in code or cipher)
cryptography (the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms)
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