Dictionary

vaccinator en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English vaccine Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English vaccinate English -or English vaccinator From vaccinate + -or.

Meanings

1. A person or agent that administers vaccines.
   • In mid-2007, GPEI thought it had made significant headway; a "third party" had brokered an agreement with the Taliban to let polio vaccinators work unimpeded. 2009 February 6, Leslie Roberts, “POLIO ERADICATION: Looking for a Little Luck”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 702–705:
   • In all this part of the Archipelago the Dutch make very praiseworthy efforts to improve the condition of the aborigines by establishing schoolmasters in every village (who are mostly natives of Amboyna or Saparua, who have; been instructed by the resident missionaries), and by employing native vaccinators to prevent the ravages of smallpox. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 80:

Forms

Deriveds

provaccinator · pro-vaccinator · anti-vaccinator · antivaccinator

Relateds

antivaxx · vaccination · pro-vax · pro-vaxxer · antivaccination · pro-vaccination · provaxx · vaccine · anti-vax · vaccinate · antivax · anti-vaxxer · vaxxer · vaccinationist · pro-vaxx · anti-vaxx · antivaccinationist · anti-vaccination · provaccinationist · provaxxer · vax · provax · provaccination · anti-vaccinationist · antivaxxer · pro-vaccinationist

Synonyms

vaccinist · vacciner

Translations (16)

nl vaccinatrice (person or agent that administers vaccines) · nl vaccinateur (person or agent that administers vaccines) · it vaccinatrice (person or agent that administers vaccines) · es vacunadora (person or agent that administers vaccines) · fr vaccinatrice (person or agent that administers vaccines) · de Impfarzt (person or agent that administers vaccines) · fr vaccinateur (person or agent that administers vaccines) · ms juruvaksin (person or agent that administers vaccines) · nl vaccinator (person or agent that administers vaccines) · it vaccinatore (person or agent that administers vaccines) · es vacunador (person or agent that administers vaccines) · ga vacsaíneoir (person or agent that administers vaccines) · nb vaksinatør (person or agent that administers vaccines) · de Impfärztin (person or agent that administers vaccines) · nn vaksinatør (person or agent that administers vaccines) · ro vaccinator (person or agent that administers vaccines)