noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person who transcribes; a transcriptionist.
2. 2
   a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance wordnet
3. 3
   A device or program that transcribes data.
4. 4
   someone who makes a written version of spoken material wordnet
5. 5
   someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation wordnet

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6. 6
   someone who rewrites in a different script wordnet
7. 7
   a person who translates written messages from one language to another wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

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Etymology

From transcribe + -er.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.