broadcaster
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɔdˌkæstɚ/, /ˈbɹɑd-/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/, /-ˌkæstə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: broad‧cast‧er
Noun
[edit]broadcaster (plural broadcasters)
- (agriculture)
- (broadcasting)
- 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.
- An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
- 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.
- (computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.
Hyponyms
[edit]- datacaster
- pubcaster (informal)
- radiobroadcaster
- radiocaster
- satcaster (informal)
- sportscaster (chiefly Canada, US)
- telebroadcaster
- telecaster (dated)
Derived terms
[edit]- broadcastress (dated, rare)
- radiobroadcaster
- Stratocaster
- telebroadcaster
Translations
[edit]piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.
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organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting
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person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts
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one who presents radio or television programmes — see presenter
piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network
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References
[edit]- ^ “broadcaster, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2022; “broadcaster, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- broadcasting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- broadcaster (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia