Meaning

6 senses
  1. A machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.

    a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions

  2. A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.

  3. An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.

    Rundfunksender

    мо́вникmóvnyk

  4. A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.

    Sender, Senderin

    ди́кторdíktor, ди́кторшаdíktorša, телевизио́нщикteleviziónščik

    someone who broadcasts on radio or television

  5. A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.

  6. (obsolete)A person who sows seeds by scattering; also, one who promotes sowing seeds in this manner instead of by drilling (“making holes in the soil and placing seeds in them”).

Examples

8 sentences
  1. I like this broadcaster's voice a lot.

  2. Freedom of speech is especially important to broadcasters.

  3. The broadcaster made edits to the television schedule.

  4. The broadcaster has not yet taken a position.

  5. NHK is a public broadcaster.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting:
Русский
By meaning 1
person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting:
person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts:

Origin

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”)

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

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Forms

plural: broadcasters
Singularbroadcaster
Pluralbroadcasters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions:spreader

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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