sender

1. 1.

   someone who transmits a message

   “return to sender”

   Synonymstransmitter

   Broadercommunicator

   Narrowerspammer
2. 2.

   set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

   Synonymstransmitter

   Broaderset

   Narrowerjammerradio transmittersatellite transmittertelevision transmitter

   Partsantenna

Other forms of sender

plural

senders·

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 sender

What does sender mean?

sender means "someone who transmits a message". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sender?

sender has 2 syllables: sen-der. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛndɚ/.

What is another word for sender?

Close synonyms include transmitter, transmitter. 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 sender a common word?

sender is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.