Meanings
nounreporter (plural reporters)
plural reporters · alternative reportor · alternative reportour
- Someone or something that reports.
The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
- A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
Synonyms: rapporteur
- lawA case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- biologyA gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
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Origin
- Old Frenchreporteur
- Middle Englishreportour
- Englishreporter
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
More words from Middle English, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُرَاسِل, مُرَاسِلَة
- مُرَاسِل (murāsil)journalist
- مُرَاسِلَة (murāsila)journalist
- صَحَافِيّ (ṣaḥāfiyy)journalist
- صَحَافِيَّة (ṣaḥāfiyya)journalist
Bengali রিপোর্টার, সংবাদদাতা
- রিপোর্টার (ripōrṭar)journalist
- সংবাদদাতা (śoṅbaddata)journalist
- সাংবাদিক (śaṅbadik)journalist
Bulgarian репорте́р, репорте́рка
- репорте́р (reportér)journalist
- репорте́рка (reportérka)journalist
Catalan reporter
- reporterjournalist
Chinese Cantonese 記者 /记者
- 記者 /记者 (gei³ ze²)journalist
Chinese Mandarin 記者 /记者
- 記者 /记者 (jìzhě)journalist
Czech zpravodaj, zpravodajka
- zpravodajjournalist
- zpravodajkajournalist
- reportérjournalist
- reportérkajournalist
Danish journalist, reporter
- journalistjournalist
- reporterjournalist
Dutch verslaggever, reporter
- verslaggeverjournalist
- reporterjournalist
Esperanto ĵurnalisto
- ĵurnalistojournalist
Estonian reporter
- reporterjournalist
Finnish toimittaja, reportteri
- toimittajajournalist
- reportterijournalist
French reporter, reporteur
- reporterjournalist
- reporteurjournalist
- reporteuse f or reportricejournalist
- rapporteurjournalist
- rapporteusejournalist
- journalistejournalist
German Reporter, Reporterin
- Reporterjournalist
- Reporterinjournalist
Greek ρεπόρτερ, δημοσιογράφος
- ρεπόρτερ (repórter)journalist
- δημοσιογράφος (dimosiográfos)journalist
Hindi संवाददाता, पत्रकार
- संवाददाता (samvāddātā)journalist
- पत्रकार (patrakār)journalist
Hungarian riporter, riporternő
- riporterjournalist
- riporternőjournalist
- tudósítójournalist
Indonesian jurnalis
- jurnalisjournalist
Italian giornalista, inviato
- giornalistajournalist
- inviatojournalist
- corrispondentejournalist
Japanese 記者, 報告者
- 記者 (kisha)journalist
- 報告者 (hōkokusha)journalist
- リポーター (ripōtā)journalist
- ジャーナリスト (jānarisuto)journalist
Korean 기자, 보고자
- 기자 (gija)journalist
- 보고자 (bogoja)journalist
Latin relātor
- relātorjournalist
Latvian reportieris
- reportierisjournalist
Lithuanian reporteris
- reporterisjournalist
Norwegian Bokmål reporter
- reporterjournalist
Polish reporter, reporterka
- reporterjournalist
- reporterkajournalist
Portuguese repórter, jornalista
- repórterjournalist
- jornalistajournalist
Romanian reporter, reporteră
- reporterjournalist
- reporterăjournalist
Russian репортёр, репортёрша
- репортёр (reportjór)journalist
- репортёрша (reportjórša)journalist
- корреспонде́нт (korrespondént)journalist
- корреспонде́нтка (korrespondéntka)journalist
- журнали́ст (žurnalíst)journalist
- журнали́стка (žurnalístka)journalist
Slovak reportér, reportérka
- reportérjournalist
- reportérkajournalist
- spravodajcajournalist
Spanish reportero, reportera
- reporterojournalist
- reporterajournalist
Swahili mwanahabari
- mwanahabarijournalist
Swedish reporter
- reporterjournalist
Tagalog tagapag-ulat
- tagapag-ulatjournalist
Thai นักข่าว
- นักข่าว (nák-kàao)journalist
Turkish muhabir, bildirmen
- muhabirjournalist
- bildirmenjournalist
Ukrainian репорте́р, репорте́рка
- репорте́р (reportér)journalist
- репорте́рка (reportérka)journalist
- кореспонде́нт (korespondént)journalist
- кореспонде́нтка (korespondéntka)journalist
- журналі́ст (žurnalíst)journalist
- журналі́стка (žurnalístka)journalist
Urdu صَحافِی
- صَحافِی (sahāfī)journalist
Vietnamese phóng viên, nhà báo
- phóng viênjournalist
- nhà báojournalist
- ký giảjournalist
Yiddish רעפּאָרטער, רעפּאָרטערין
- רעפּאָרטער (reporter)journalist
- רעפּאָרטערין (reporterin)journalist
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
APA
reporter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reporter
MLA
“reporter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reporter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reporter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reporter.
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