Definition of NOMENCLATOR

nomenclator

Plural: nomenclators

Noun

  • An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
  • One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
  • A document containing such name assignments.
  • An early form of substitution cipher.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”).

Synonyms

glossary, vocabulary

Scrabble Score: 15

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Words With Friends Score: 20

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