Definition of "nomenclator" in English

noun

1. An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.

   • If he does not know them, it is deception to pretend that he does, while all the time he has never heard of them until instructed by the nomenclator.

2. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.

3. A document containing such name assignments.

4. An early form of substitution cipher.