Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person or thing who explicates

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Examples

  • Essayist and explicator, author of the bestselling "A Walk in the Woods" (about hiking the Appalachian Trail, back when that had an innocent connotation) and a host of books on language and science and travel.

    Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

  • My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.

    On Being a Bad Mother 2009

  • My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.

    On Being a Bad Mother 2009

  • Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.

    On Being a Bad Mother 2009

  • A committed generalist, a insanely prolific and indefagitable explicator of all and sundry – remind you of anyone?

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • Essayist and explicator, author of the bestselling "A Walk in the Woods" (about hiking the Appalachian Trail, back when that had an innocent connotation) and a host of books on language and science and travel.

    Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

  • Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • There's body armor, and there is also what Otto Rank called personality armor I haven't read Rank, just his explicator, Ernest Becker.

    The Sexy Lean Fresca 2010

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Hero\'s Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a scholar who achieved legendary status as an explicator of myths, is reverently profiled in this documentary that encompasses his long life and career.'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell 2009

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