disseminator en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissēminātor. By surface analysis, disseminate + -or.
Meanings
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One who, or that which, disseminates.
I think that the New Song movement may hold the key in the cultural merging of many cultures and peoples, for it expands the role of the artists into a disseminator of artistic culture, instead of the self-absorbed, individualistic style that characterizes North American songwriters.
1984 April 21, Maida Tilchen, “New Song, New Feminism, New Gay Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 16:It is these people, gentlemen, the disseminators of these rumours, who are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters must be an atheist.
1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disseminators | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (11)
cs šiřitel (person who disseminates) · fi levittäjä (person who disseminates) · de Verstreuer (person who disseminates) · de Verbreiter (person who disseminates) · fr disséminatrice (person who disseminates) · es diseminador (person who disseminates) · de Säer (person who disseminates) · ru распространи́тель (person who disseminates) · cs šiřitelka (person who disseminates) · fr disséminateur (person who disseminates) · it disseminatore (person who disseminates)