PROGRAMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does programmer mean? 

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

1. a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGRAMMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who designs and writes and tests computer programs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coder; computer programmer; programmer; software engineer

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

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

computer user (a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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

cracker (a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things)

hacker (a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm)

cyber-terrorist; cyberpunk (a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism)

Derivation:

program (write a computer program)

 Context examples 

For example, accountant, programmer analyst, patient care associate, staff nurse, etc.

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