broadcaster

English

WOTD – 20 December 2022

Etymology

From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔdˌkæstɚ/, /ˈbɹɑd-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/, /-ˌkæstə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: broad‧cast‧er

Noun

broadcaster (plural broadcasters)

1. (agriculture)
   1. A machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.
   2. (obsolete) A person who sows seeds by scattering; also, one who promotes sowing seeds in this manner instead of by drilling (“making holes in the soil and placing seeds in them”).

      Antonym: driller

2. (broadcasting)
   1. 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.
   2. An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
   3. 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.
3. (computing) A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.

Hyponyms

• datacaster
• pubcaster (informal)
• radiobroadcaster
• radiocaster
• satcaster (informal)
• sportscaster (chiefly Canada, US)
• telebroadcaster
• telecaster (dated)

Derived terms

• broadcastress (dated, rare)
• radiobroadcaster
• Stratocaster
• telebroadcaster

Translations

machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.

Finnish: kylvökone (fi)

piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.

Finnish: lähetin (fi) Marathi: ब्रॉडकास्टर m (brŏḍkāsṭar)

organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting

Arabic: إِذَاعَة f (ʔiḏāʕa) Chinese: Mandarin: 放送局 (zh) (fàngsòngjú) (dated, or referring to broadcasting in Japan or Korea) Dutch: omroep (nl) m, zender (nl) m Esperanto: elsendanto Finnish: lähetystoiminnan harjoittaja, radioyhtiö (of radio), televisioyhtiö (of television) French: radiodiffuseur m (of radio) German: Rundfunksender (de) m Greek: ραδιοφωνία (el) f (radiofonía) Italian: telediffusore m (chiefly television) Japanese: 放送局 (ja) (ほうそうきょく, hōsōkyoku) Korean: 방송국(放送局) (ko) (bangsongguk) Macedonian: емитувач m (emituvač), радиодифузе́р m (radiodifuzér) Maori: rōpū whakapāho Marathi: प्रसारक m (prasārak) Norwegian: Bokmål: kringkaster m Polish: nadawca (pl) m Scottish Gaelic: craoladair m Spanish: emisora (es) f, televisora f (of television) Turkish: yayımcı (tr) Ukrainian: мо́вник (uk) m (móvnyk) Urdu: ناشر (ur) (nāśir)

person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts

Arabic: مُذِيع m (muḏīʕ), مُذِيعَة f (muḏīʕa) Cebuano: brodkaster, magsisibya Chinese: Mandarin: 播報員 / 播报员 (zh) (bōbàoyuán, bòbàoyuán), 播音員 / 播音员 (zh) (bōyīnyuán, bòyīnyuán), 廣播員 / 广播员 (zh) (guǎngbōyuán, guǎngbòyuán), 主播 (zh) (zhǔbō, zhǔbò) Esperanto: elsendanto Finnish: lähettäjä (fi) (sender), levittäjä (fi) (spreader) German: Sender (de) m, Senderin f Greek: εκφωνητής (el) m (ekfonitís) Hebrew: שַׁדְרָן (he) m (šadrán), שַׁדְרָנִית (he) f (šadranít) Hungarian: műsorvezető (hu) Indonesian: angkasawan (id) (of radio) Macedonian: емитувач m (emituvač), радиодифузе́р m (radiodifuzér) Maltese: xandar m, xandara f Manx: ym-skeaylleyder m Maori: kaiwhakapaoho Marathi: प्रसारक m (prasārak) Norwegian: Bokmål: kringkaster m Nynorsk: kringkastar m Polish: nadawca (pl) m, nadawczyni f Romanian: crainic (ro) m, spicher (ro) m Russian: ди́ктор (ru) m (díktor), ди́кторша (ru) f (díktorša), телевизио́нщик (ru) m (televiziónščik) (of television, informal), телевизио́нщица (ru) f (televiziónščica) (of television, informal) Scottish Gaelic: craoladair m Tagalog: bródkaster Thai: ผู้ประกาศ (pûu-bprà-gàat) Turkish: yayımcı (tr) Urdu: نَشر کار (naśar kār) Vietnamese: phát thanh viên (of radio)

one who presents radio or television programmes — see presenter

piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network

Finnish: yleislähetin, lähetin (fi) Marathi: ब्रॉडकास्टर m (brŏḍkāsṭar)

References

1. “broadcaster, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2022; “broadcaster, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• broadcasting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• broadcaster (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebroadcast