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coder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin caudex Latin cōdex Old French codebor. Middle English code English code Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English coder From code + -er.

Meanings

  1. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
  2. A person who assigns codes or classifications.
    • Others may be subjective ratings made by the coders who independently read the studies, such as sex stereotype of the job […] 2007, Gerald J. Miller, Kaifeng Yang, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, page 715:
  3. A programmer (computer programmer).
    • Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code. 2017 August 21, Haley Draznin, “Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 17 May 2025:
    • Part of the series' goal was to change how coders are perceived -- and show the community that it offers. 2016 May 7, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Girls Who Code taps four teen girls for YouTube series”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:

Forms

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Deriveds

democoder · barcoder · intracoder · codec · noncoder · intercoder

Synonyms

code monkey

Translations (13)

ru ко́дер (device) · ja コーダー (programmer) · ja コーダ (programmer) · pl koder (device) · ru ко́дер (programmer) · vi lập trình viên (programmer) · eo kodisto (programmer) · fi koodari (programmer) · it programmatore (programmer) · pl koder (programmer) · sv kodare (programmer) · es programador (programmer) · eo kodilo (device)