INVESTIGATOR
Dictionary entry overview: What does investigator mean?
• INVESTIGATOR (noun)
The noun INVESTIGATOR has 3 senses:
1. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
2. someone who investigates
3. a police officer who investigates crimes
Familiarity information: INVESTIGATOR used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INVESTIGATOR (noun)
Meaning:
A scientist who devotes himself to doing research
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
investigator; research worker; researcher
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
man of science; scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
experimenter (a research worker who conducts experiments)
boffin ((British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research)
fieldworker (a researcher who works in the field)
post doc; postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)
Meaning:
Someone who investigates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
ombudsman (a government appointee who investigates complaints by private persons against the government)
examiner; inspector (an investigator who observes carefully)
detective (an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public)
coroner; medical examiner (a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes)
adjuster; adjustor; claim agent; claims adjuster; claims adjustor (one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement)
Instance hyponyms:
Samuel Wiesenthal; Wiesenthal (Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908))
Meaning:
A police officer who investigates crimes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
detective; police detective; tec; investigator
Hypernyms ("investigator" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "investigator"):
dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw (someone who is a detective)
plainclothesman (a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty)
tracer (an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods)
