A person who converts text or code into normal language.
the world's leading expert on, and decipherer of, runes
a decipherer of Old Norse
Example sentencesExamples
As an incidental result he demonstrated his own talents as a decipherer when in 1845 the society received copies of an inscription at Kapur di Giri, near Peshawar.
in Latin, French, Spanish, and Swedish, Willes soon established widespread fame as a highly skilled, meticulous decipherer.
So I went to Texas, made PDFs of every single document that could be copied, and unfortunately for me, the PDFs were not labeled, so I spent a miserable six months doing, in effect, the work of a decipherer, putting together unlabeled broken tablets.
Newcastle's rediscovered correspondence with the decipherer of the Rosetta Stone by Margaret Maitland is at the Great North Museum.
The decipherer then knows to extract every other letter of every other word, starting with the second word, to get the message (in Latin): Sum tali cautela ut ...
The Antiquities Minister has now made demands to the French government to remove the 1875 Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi statue of Champollian, decipherer of Hieroglyphics, from the College de France.
'You don't need to be a great decipherer to crack the code of Michelle's brand allegiances,' says Young.
Auguste Mariette was the cousin of artist and explorer Nestor L'Hote, who had accompanied Jean-Francois Champollion - the decipherer of the Rosetta stone - on various explorations and adventures.