English Online Dictionary. What means reporter? What does reporter mean?
English
Alternative forms
- reportor (obsolete)
- reportour (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpoətə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
reporter (plural reporters)
- Someone or something that reports.
- A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
- A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
- (law) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
- (biology) A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: repòrter
- → Greek: ρεπόρτερ (repórter)
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- repertor, rereport
Catalan
Etymology
From reportar + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [rə.purˈte]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [rə.porˈte]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [re.poɾˈteɾ]
Noun
reporter m (plural reporters, feminine reportera)
- reporter (a journalist who investigates and reports)
- Synonym: repòrter
- informant, accuser, denouncer
Adjective
reporter (feminine reportera, masculine plural reporters, feminine plural reporteres)
- who informs (as an informant), who denounces
Further reading
- “reporter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reporter”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “reporter” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reporter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano
Etymology
From English reporter.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter
Noun
reporter
- someone or something that reports
- a journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television
Danish
Noun
reporter c (singular definite reporteren, plural indefinite reportere)
- (journalism) a reporter, a journalist
Inflection
Verb
reporter
- imperativ of reportere
Related terms
- reportage
- reportere
French
Etymology 1
From re- + porter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.te/
Verb
reporter
- (literally) to carry something back to where it was
- (literally) to wear again
- to transfer (an emotion)
- reporter son amour sur quelqu’un ― to transfer one's love to somebody
- to put back; to put off; to postpone
- (usually impersonal) to carry or take back in time
- (pronominal) to refer; to check
- (mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
Noun
reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)
- a news reporter; a journalist
Usage notes
- The word is much less frequent in Quebec, where it is seen as an anglicism, words like journaliste, correspondant or envoyé are preferred.
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “reporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpɔr.ter/
- Rhymes: -ɔrter
- Hyphenation: re‧pòr‧ter
Noun
reporter m or f by sense (invariable)
- reporter (journalist)
References
Latin
Verb
reporter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reportō
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
Noun
reporter m (plural reporters)
- Alternative form of riporter: reporter
Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reportere, definite plural reporterne)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
- krigsreporter
Related terms
- reportasje
References
- “reporter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Noun
reporter m (definite singular reporteren, indefinite plural reporterar, definite plural reporterane)
- (journalism) a reporter
Derived terms
- krigsreporter
Related terms
- reportasje
References
- “reporter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
re- + porter.
Verb
reporter
- to bring back
- to gain; to get (take possession of)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
References
- reporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare German Reporter, Russian репортёр (reportjór), Spanish reportero, ultimately from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛˈpɔr.tɛr/
- Rhymes: -ɔrtɛr
- Syllabification: re‧por‧ter
Noun
reporter m pers (female equivalent reporterka, augmentative reporterzyna, related adjective reporterski)
- (journalism) reporter (journalist who investigates, edits, and reports news stories for newspapers, radio, and television)
- Hypernym: dziennikarz
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- reporter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- reporter in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French reporter.
Noun
reporter m (plural reporteri)
- reporter, journalist
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /repǒrteːr/
- Hyphenation: re‧por‧ter
Noun
repòrtēr m (Cyrillic spelling репо̀рте̄р)
- reporter (journalist who investigates)
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English reporter.
Noun
reporter c
- reporter
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- rapport
- reportage
Further reading
- reporter in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker