English Explanatory Dictionary

registrar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An official keeper or recorder of records.
  2. An officer in a university who keeps enrollment and academic achievement records.
  3. The person responsible for record-keeping related to a museum's or archive's collection.
  4. The chief executive officer of a judicial forum, in charge of the entire registry of the department.
  5. A doctor receiving advanced specialist training in some countries in order to become a consultant.
  6. A service that manages the reservation of domain names.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪsˌtɹɑɹ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-registrar.wav

Word forms

registrar registrars

Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrārius, from registrum (“register”) + -ārius (“agent of use”). See more at register. By surface analysis, register /registry (“a record”) + -ar.

Related words

register registry

Derived words

registrar-general registrarship

Translations

Bulgarian: архивар Chinese Mandarin: 登記員 /登记员 Dutch: griffier Dutch: trouwambtenaar Esperanto: aktisto Finnish: rekisteri Finnish: rekisteriviranomainen Finnish: kirjaamo French: registraire Galician: escribán Galician: rexistrador German: Registrator German: Registrar German: Registerführer Ancient Greek: γραμματεύς Hungarian: nyilvántartó Hungarian: anyakönyvvezető Japanese: 記録係 Macedonian: архи́вар Macedonian: регистра́тор Macedonian: ма́тичар Māori: kairēhita Romanian: registrator Romanian: înregistrator Russian: архива́риус Russian: регистра́тор Spanish: registrador Tagalog: tagatala
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