Meanings
nountransliterator (plural transliterators)
plural transliterators
- One who transliterates.
The transliterator’s first dilemma, then, is “Hanukkah” vs. “Chanuka,” or convenience for the reader vs. faithfulness to the original.
1986 April 28, J[onathan] J[eremy] Goldberg, “Anyway you spell it, it still means ‘terror’”, in The Central New Jersey Home News, New Brunswick, N.J., →OCLC, page A9, column 1
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transliterator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transliterator
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“transliterator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transliterator. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transliterator,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transliterator.
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