Meanings
windtalker1
plural windtalkers · alternative Windtalker
- historicalgovernmentA Navajo codetalker during World War II.
There are alternative forms of code, like using obscure languages: World War II's Navajo “windtalkers” are a well-known case.
2004, “Codes and Decoding”, in James C. Bradford, editor, International Encyclopedia of Military History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 3031 more example
Even when they forced a captured Navajo soldier, who was not a Windtalker, to translate intercepted messages, he could not make head or tail of the stream of words because of the code within a code.
2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, The Language Game […] , →ISBN
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Synonyms & antonyms
nouna secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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