Word Type

Noun

The word "operator" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

subway

Capable Of

call 911 direct call page doctor receive many telephone calls talk on phone tell if person in tell phone number tell what time

Coordinate Terms

; labor union laborer mineowner[coinstantial miner mineworker regulator trade union worker

Derived Terms

cooperator eigenoperator hyperoperator interoperator intraoperator metaoperator nonoperator operator theory operatorial operatorless operatorship operatress operon stoperator superoperator sysop teleoperator

Context

computing linguistics mathematics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

bourgeois businessperson causal agency causal agent cause function map mapping mathematical function opportunist plunger self-seeker single-valued function speculator

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

't Hooft operator Dunkl operator Elvis operator Hamiltonian operator Kleene operator Laplace operator Laplace-Beltrami operator Laplace-de Rham operator NOT operator Reynolds operator Sobel operator Sobel-Feldman operator all-operator arithmetic operator assignment operator bastard operator from hell binary operator bitwise operator box operator closure operator co-operator comparison operator conditional operator crane operator d'Alembert operator dammit operator differential operator elliptic operator excavator operator flip-flop operator forklift operator hull operator hypoelliptic operator infix operator integral operator ladder operator length operator lifted operator linear operator logic operator machine operator marconi operator mobile virtual network operator owner-operator pseudodifferential operator quabla operator radio operator relational operator rest operator safe navigation operator shape operator short circuit operator short-circuit operator skyline operator smooth operator spread operator suede-shoe operator system operator telegraph operator telephone operator ternary operator token-pasting operator tour operator unary operator walrus operator wave operator wireless operator

Type Of (IsA)

businessman causal agent mapping office worker speculator

Related Terms

opera operable operand operant operate operation operational operative opus

Related Terms

adept bind channel chinese whispers construct deal defined domain expression facilitator function irc mapping military network operate programming language questionable range results symbol syntax telecommunications variable variables

Synonym Network

attendant hustler switchboard operator

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