Definitions

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

  • noun In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word assimilator.

Examples

  • The assimilator is the one who made these insinuations and slanders ", he commented.

    unknown title 2009

  • Baseball has taken an awkward step from great assimilator to great divider.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has always prided itself on being the great secular assimilator.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has taken an awkward step from great assimilator to great divider.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has taken an awkward step from great assimilator to great divider.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has always prided itself on being the great secular assimilator.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has taken an awkward step from great assimilator to great divider.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has always prided itself on being the great secular assimilator.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Baseball has always prided itself on being the great secular assimilator.

    Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010

  • Those who really know what originality is are not long the slave of the power of imitation: it is the gifted assimilator that suffers most under the spell of mastery.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.