nomenclator

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Definition of nomenclator in English English dictionary

A document containing such name assignments

An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information

True. Sir John Daw, sir, your wife's servant, this.

One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system

The nomenclator's method is first to look about and see if the place has any natural features to suggest a name—like Rocking Stone Farm or White Birches.

{n} one who names persons right

{i} one who allots official names and terms (especially used in the classification of items in a scientific field); book that comprises lists of words; (Archaic) person who announces the guests by calling out their names

One who calls persons or things by their names

One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names

Hyphenation

no·men·cla·tor

Synonyms

vocabulary, glossary

Etymology

[ 'nO-m&n-"klA-t&r ] (noun.) 1585. From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”) nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”).