decipherer
Americannoun
-
decipherers
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected 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.
See Examples For:
This is a monumental work by American conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth that pays homage to the town’s native son and hieroglyphics decipherer, Jean-François Champollion.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
He makes better decisions at the line of scrimmage, where he’s still the league’s best decipherer of defenses.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2016
The greatest security against the decipherer has been found in the use of elaborate tables of letters, arranged in the form of the multiplication table, the message being constructed by the aid of preconcerted key-words.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High-Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Thomas L. Masson
Black-letter, you know, was my early passion, and the tombstones in the Greyfriars' churchyard early yielded up to my knowledge as a decipherer what little they could tell of the forgotten dead.
From Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott
But in a distracted, memory-stunted age, they require new interpreters, curators from different backgrounds and perhaps artists, as decipherers, analysts, able to link the present to the past.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
Leave it for Mr Wriothesley, the prince of decipherers.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
Not to mention enough cryptic symbols, pop-culture references and recurring motifs to keep the online decipherers busy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2019
At all events, there were certain animate objects who were delighted to see us, or we must have been very bad decipherers of the human countenance.
From Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars by T. Robertson
Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new characters—thus have ye concealed yourselves well from all decipherers!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions 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.
