contributor

1. 1.

   someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money

   Synonymssubscriber

   Broaderdonor
2. 2.

   a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book

   Broaderwriter

Other forms of contributor

plural

contributors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about contributor

What does contributor mean?

contributor means "someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contributor?

contributor has 4 syllables: con-trib-u-tor. The stress falls on "trib". In IPA it is /kənˈtɹɪbjətɚ/.

What is another word for contributor?

Close synonyms include subscriber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contributor a common word?

contributor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.