assimilator
Americannoun
-
a person or thing that takes in or absorbs.
-
a person or thing that has the effect of assimilating people to a dominant set of attitudes, customs, etc.
-
a person who assimilates or adapts to a dominant set of attitudes, customs, etc., especially one who does so readily or easily.
Other Word Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“I think of America, the great assimilator, as a rubber band, but with this — we’re at the breaking point,” she said in the interview.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022
He is an able student and assimilator without seeming studied.
From New York Times • May 27, 2015
This impromptu adventure did not thrill my parents, but, I figured, what better way to explore the spirit of one of the Western world’s most condensed cities than through sports, the great assimilator?
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2012
Musically he was an adroit assimilator of styles.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are a born assimilator, Angelo, do you know that?”
From Eve to the Rescue by Summers, Dudley Gloyne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
