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projector.

Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktə/Received-Pronunciation/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɚ/Canada, General-American/pɹəˈd͡ʒektə/Australia, New-Zealand
  1. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.

  2. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.

  3. That which projects or launches something.

    a depth charge projector
  4. One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.

  5. An operator that forms a projection.

Where this word comes from

Partly from Latin projector (“person who throws away”); partly directly from project + -or.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.