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One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.

The office or dignity of a translator.

Serving to translate; transferring. [R.] Arbuthnot.

. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

2. All but. See under All. -- But and if, but if; an attempt on the part of King James's translators of the Bible to express the conjunctive and adversative force of the Greek But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; . . . the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not fo…

The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

on. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward. This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. Pope. -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To give on or upon. (a) To rush; to fall upon. [Obs.] (b) To have a view of; to be in sight of; to overlook; to look tow…

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

A literal translator.

ling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. Shak. The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. M. Arnold.

-- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

One who makes or favors a version; a translator. [R.]