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DECIPHERER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("decipherer" is a kind of...):
reader (a person who can read; a literate person)
Derivation:
decipher (convert code into ordinary language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text
Synonyms:
decipherer; decoder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
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