Meanings
plural traducers
- One who traduces; one who maligns another by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
In short, Mr. Price defended the country against its traducers, saying that, "so far from the Territory deserving the title of White Elephant, it was a credit to South Australia, and a valuable portion of her possessions."
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 2401 more example
I greatly mistrust that the Bohemian on our shores is a much-abused man. To his traducer, who casts up anarchism against him, he replies that the last census (1880) shows his people to have the fewest criminals of all in proportion to numbers.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137
Synonyms & antonyms
nounone who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latintrādūcō
- Englishtraducer
From traduce + -er, from Latin trādūcō.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian клеветник
- клеветник (klevetnik)one who maligns another
French calomniateur, calomniatrice
- calomniateurone who maligns another
- calomniatriceone who maligns another
- diffamateurone who maligns another
- diffamatriceone who maligns another
German Verleumder, Verleumderin
- Verleumderone who maligns another
- Verleumderinone who maligns another
Irish aithiseoir
- aithiseoirone who maligns another
Swedish belackare
- belackareone who maligns another
Turkish iftiracı
- iftiracıone who maligns another
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traducer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/traducer
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