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Definitions for Recorder

[1] a person who records, especially as an official duty.
[2] English Law . a judge in a city or borough court. (formerly) the legal adviser of a city or borough, with responsibility for keeping a record of legal actions and local customs.
[3] a recording or registering apparatus or device.
[4] a device for recording sound, images, or data by electrical, magnetic, or optical means.
[5] an end-blown flute having a fipple mouthpiece, eight finger holes, and a soft, mellow tone.
[6] a person who records, such as an official or historian
[7] something that records, esp an apparatus that provides a permanent record of experiments, etc
[8] short for tape recorder
[9] music a wind instrument of the flute family, blown through a fipple in the mouth end, having a reedlike quality of tone. There are four usual sizes: bass, tenor, treble, and descant
[10] (in England) a barrister or solicitor of at least ten years' standing appointed to sit as a part-time judge in the crown court

Words related to Recorder

historian, stone, pole, indicator, flag, tombstone, gravestone, cashier, auditor, worker, agent, bookkeeper, operator, salesperson, employee, secretary, receptionist, teller, registrar, witness

Words nearby Recorder

record of achievement, record player, record-changer, recordation, recorded delivery, recorder, recordholder, recording, recording angel, recording head, recording secretary

Origin of Recorder

1275–1325; Middle English recorder wind instrument (see record, -er1), recordour legal official (< Anglo-French recordour, Old French recordeour )

Word origin for Recorder

sense 4 probably from record (vb ) in the archaic sense "to sing"

Synonyms for Recorder

endorser, registrar, scrivener, signatory, witness, certifier, commissioner for oaths, court clerk, public official