decipherer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From decipher + -er.

In this work he had followed the method which had always been used by decipherers previously. — Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain
Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new characters—thus have ye concealed yourselves well from all decipherers! — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The decipherer of the coat-of-arms had ventured up the lower step, and, shrinking back immediately, pale and tremulous, affirmed that the torch was held by the very image of old Cæsar. — Twice-told tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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