Word Meanings - EXPLAINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPLAINER)

• Commentator
• Interpreter
• explainer
• note-maker
• scholiast
• expositor
• glossary
• elucidator

Related words: (words related to EXPLAINER)

• ELUCIDATORY
  Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
• EXPOSITOR
  One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• EXPOSITORY
  Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
• ELUCIDATOR
  One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
• COMMENTATORIAL
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.
• SCHOLIAST
  A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.
• GLOSSARY
  A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• SCHOLIASTIC
  Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.
• INTERPRETER
  One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.
• COMMENTATOR
  One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.