Meanings
plural disseminators
- One who, or that which, disseminates.
It is these people, gentlemen, the disseminators of these rumours, who are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters must be an atheist.
1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 201 more example
I think that the New Song movement may hold the key in the cultural merging of many cultures and peoples, for it expands the role of the artists into a disseminator of artistic culture, instead of the self-absorbed, individualistic style that characterizes North American songwriters.
1984 April 21, Maida Tilchen, “New Song, New Feminism, New Gay Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latindissēminātor
- Englishdisseminator
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātor. By surface analysis, disseminate + -or.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech šiřitel, šiřitelka
- šiřitelperson who disseminates
- šiřitelkaperson who disseminates
Finnish levittäjä
- levittäjäperson who disseminates
French disséminateur, disséminatrice
- disséminateurperson who disseminates
- disséminatriceperson who disseminates
German Verbreiter, Verstreuer
- Verbreiterperson who disseminates
- Verstreuerperson who disseminates
- Säerperson who disseminates
Italian disseminatore
- disseminatoreperson who disseminates
Russian распространи́тель
- распространи́тель (rasprostranítelʹ)person who disseminates
Spanish diseminador
- diseminadorperson who disseminates
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disseminator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disseminator
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