/ English Dictionary

DEMONSTRATOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who participates in a public display of group feeling

Synonyms:

demonstrator; protester

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

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

counterdemonstrator (someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration)

picket (a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work)

Derivation:

demonstrate (march in protest; take part in a demonstration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer

Synonyms:

demonstrator; sales demonstrator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

sales rep; sales representative; salesperson (a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Derivation:

demonstrate (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)

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