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Definition: Stenographer |
StenographerNoun1. Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stenographer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Takes dictation in shorthand of correspondence, reports, and other matter, and operates typewriter to transcribe dictated material. Performs variety of clerical duties [ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK (clerical) 219.362-010], except when working in stenographic pool. May transcribe material from sound recordings [TRANSCRIBING-MACHINE OPERATOR (clerical) 203.582-058]. May perform stenographic duties in professional office and be designated Legal Stenographer (clerical); Medical Stenographer (clerical); Technical Stenographer (clerical). May take dictation in foreign language and be known as Foreign-Language Stenographer (clerical). May be designated according to department in which employed as Police Stenographer (government ser.). May work for public stenographic service and be designated Public Stenographer (clerical). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StenographerSynonyms: amanuensis (n), shorthand typist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Writing | Writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press; (author). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stenographer |
| English words defined with "stenographer": Brachygrapher ♦ Stenographist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stenographer": dictation period ♦ PITMAN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Public Stenographer (1934) The Stenographer (1914) Stenographer Troubles (1913) Dad's Stenographer (1913) The New Stenographer (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Caption: Office Workers Using Ediphone Office Outfit, Two Dictators, One Stenographer, One Shaver; March 2, 1912; {29.320/81} (jpg). |  | Caption: Publicity Shot, "If You Could See Yourself Dictating," "Phantom" View of Executive Standing at Desk Watching Himself Dictate to Stenographer Seated at Left; Unknown Date; {29.320/257} (jpg). |
 | Telephone girl becomes stenographer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yoshiko Joan Mori, stenographer in Education Office, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Stenographer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stenographer" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stenographer | 73 |
court stenographer | 24 |
stenographer school | 9 |
court school stenographer | 7 |
machine stenographer | 4 |
stenographer supply | 3 |
court stenographer training | 2 |
become stenographer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stenographer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stenograf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المختزل كاتب الإختزال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стенограф (steno). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 速记员, 速記" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tìsnopisec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pikakirjoittaja, kone- ja pikakirjoittaja (shorthand-typist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sténographe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stenograph (reporter, shorthand secretary, shorthand writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στενογράφοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyorsíró (shorthand-writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stenografo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 速記者 (writer of shorthand), ステップ関数 (steady, stealth, step function, stereo, stereo camera, stereo record, stereophonic, stereoscope, stereotape, stereotype, stereovision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そっきしゃ (writer of shorthand), ステノグラファー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 속기사. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giare-screeuder (shorthand writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enographerstay estenógrafo. (various references) stenograf (phonographer). (various references) стенографист. (various references) stenograf. (various references) taquígrafo (shorthand writer). (various references) stenograf. (various references) stenograf (shorthand typist), steno daktilo. (various references) стенографістка, стенограф. (various references) người viết tốc ký (stenographist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stenographer": stenographers. (additional references) | |
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"Stenographer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stenographen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stenographer" (pronounced stenu"grufer) |
| 5 | -g r u f er | autobiographer, biographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, demographer, geographer, lexicographer, oceanographer, photographer, pornographer, videographer. |
| 3 | -u f er | aquifer, conifer, Lucifer, philosopher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-n-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: stereograph. | |
-2 letters: generators, porterages, prestorage, reportages. | |
-3 letters: earphones, ephorates, estranger, gatherers, generator, grapeshot, heartsore, heptagons, nearshore, pathogens, perorates, personage, personate, porterage, regathers, reportage, sharpener, shortener, threapers. | |
-4 letters: antrorse, earphone, earstone, ephorate, estragon, estrange, estrogen, garrotes, gatherer, gheraoes, grantees, granters, grantors, greatens, greenths, groaners, haptenes, hastener, heartens, heptagon, heptanes, honester, negaters, negators, northers, operants, operates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-n-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ethnographers, stenographers. | |
+2 letters: photoengravers, stereographing. | |
+4 letters: cinematographers. | |
+5 letters: roentgenographies. | |
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