Debater

Definition: Debater

Debater

Noun

1. Someone who engages in debate.

Date "debater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Synonym: Debater

Synonym: arguer (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Reasoning,	Reasoner, logician, dialectician; disputant; controversialist, controvertist; wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist; scientist; eristic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Debater

English words defined with "debater": disprover ♦ rebutter, refuter. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Debater" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (canvass, contest, controvert, debate, discuss, knock off, moot, powwow, question, reason, strike off, toss, ventilate).

Domain	Title
Books	The Middle School Debater (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Debater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Debater" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Language		Translations for "debater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		diskutues (deliberative, disputant). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفكر (intellectual, thinking). (various references)

Bulgarian		участник в дебати. (various references)

Chinese		辩论者. (various references)

French		penseur. (various references)

German		Disputant (disputant). (various references)

Greek		συζητητήσ (arguer, controversialist). (various references)

Hungarian		vitatkozó (argumentative, disputant, disputatious, polemic). (various references)

Indonesian		pendebat, pembantah (disputant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		討論者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とうろ�"しゃ. (various references)

Manx		resooneyder (arguer, dialectician, logician, reasoner), arganeyder (arguer, pleader). (various references)

Pig Latin		ebaterday.(various references)

Portuguese		tribuno (cess, Tribune), orador (lecturer, orator, panelist, rhetor, speaker). (various references)

Romanian		persoanã care ia parte la o discuţie (disputant). (various references)

Russian		участник дебатов. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		učesnik u debati. (various references)

Spanish		polemista (polemic, polemicist). (various references)

Swedish		debattör. (various references)

Turkish		tartışmacı (disputant, disputatious, wrangler), konuşmacı (lecturer, orator, speaker, talker). (various references)

Ukranian		учасник дебатів, сперечальник (controversialist, disputant, quarreler, quarreller, wrangler). (various references)

Vietnamese		người tranh luận giỏi người tham gia thảo luận. (various references)

Welsh		dadleuydd (advocate, contraversialist), dadleuwr (advocate, contraversialist). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "debater": debaters. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Debater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabate, deather, debatee, Debati, debatle, debator, debature, debita, debite, debitum, deblate, debmat, degate, Dejager, Delaitre, delater, Delbaere, diebate, dubitare, sebatier. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "debater" (pronounced dubā"ter)
3	-ā" t er	cater, crater, creator, curator, deflator, dictator, equator, Frater, freighter, gaiter, gator, grater, greater, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, Prater, rater, skater, Slater, stater, straighter, traitor, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: berated, rebated, tabered.
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-r-t"
	-1 letter: beater, berate, debate, derate, rebate, redate, teared.
	-2 letters: ardeb, arete, barde, bared, bated, beard, beret, bread, brede, breed, dater, debar, derat, deter, eared, eater, rated, taber, tared, trade, tread, treed.
	-3 letters: abed, abet, bade, bard, bare, bate, bead, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brad, brae, brat, bred, bree, darb, dare, dart, date, dear, debt, deer, deet, dere, drab, drat, dree, rate, read, rede, reed, rete, tare, tear, teed, trad, tree.
	-4 letters: arb, are, art, ate, bad, bar, bat, bed, bee, bet, bra, dab, deb, dee, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, rad, rat, reb, red, ree, ret, tab, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted, tee.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ar, at, ba, be, de, ed, er, et, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-r-t"
	+1 letter: bantered, bartered, battered, betrayed, breasted, breathed, debaters, rabbeted, rebaited, waterbed.
	+2 letters: aberrated, abreacted, absterged, acerbated, bartended, bartender, blathered, blattered, bracketed, debarment, liberated, redbaited, redbreast, streambed, trabeated, tradeable, waterbeds.
	+3 letters: bacterized, banistered, barefooted, bartenders, becarpeted, betattered, bighearted, brecciated, broadsheet, carbureted, celebrated, cerebrated, creditable, cybernated, debarments, deliberate, deportable, deterrable, drumbeater, elaborated, extrudable, exuberated, featherbed, hibernated, inbreathed, inebriated, rebaptized, redbreasts, reobtained, reprobated, streambeds, sweetbread, threadbare, timberhead, whitebeard.
	+4 letters: abbreviated, abridgement, bactericide, beardtongue, bespattered, breadbasket, breadthwise, breakfasted, broadsheets, carburetted, centerboard, counterbade, decarbonate, decerebrate, defibrinate, deliberated, deliberates, detribalize, deverbative, drumbeaters, elucubrated, embryonated, exacerbated, featherbeds, obliterated, prediabetes, prediabetic, predictable, redoubtable, reinhabited, sweetbreads, tabernacled, teeterboard, timberheads, unbracketed, unliberated, whitebeards.
	+5 letters: abridgements, accreditable, bactericides, beardtongues, bigheartedly, breadbaskets, centerboards, decarbonated, decarbonates, decerebrated, decerebrates, defibrillate, defibrinated, defibrinates, deliberately, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, demonstrable, determinable, determinably, detribalized, detribalizes, deverbatives, disreputable, equilibrated, extraditable, obdurateness, perambulated, prediabetics, readjustable, reattributed, recalibrated, rehydratable, relubricated, restabilized, reverberated, skateboarder, teeterboards, tuberculated, uncelebrated, weatherboard.
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