Nomenclator definition
An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
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One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.
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One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.
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A person who invents names for, or assigns them to, things, as in scientific classification.
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One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
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A document containing such name assignments.
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A person, specif. a slave in ancient Rome, who announces the names of guests, etc.
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Noun
Singular:
nomenclator
Plural:
nomenclatorsOrigin of nomenclator
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From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met"), from nōmen (“name") + calō (“call together").
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