DECIPHERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decipherer mean? 

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

1. the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text

2. a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text

  Familiarity information: DECIPHERER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECIPHERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

decipherer; decoder

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

So, for example, if I should say, in a letter to a friend, ‘Our brother Tom has just got the piles,’ a skilful decipherer would discover, that the same letters which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, ‘Resist —, a plot is brought home—The tour.’ And this is the anagrammatic method.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)