Definitions for conductor

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conductor con·duc·tor

Spelling: [kuh n-duhk-ter]

IPA: /kənˈdʌk tər/

Conductor is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in conductor (ccdnoortu).

Definitions for conductor

noun

1. a person who conducts; a leader, guide, director, or manager.
2. an employee on a bus, train, or other public conveyance, who is in charge of the conveyance and its passengers, collects fares or tickets, etc.
3. a person who directs an orchestra or chorus, communicating to the performers by motions of a baton or the hands his or her interpretation of the music.
4. a substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound, etc.:
5. lightning rod.

Origin of conductor

1400-50; Latin (see conduce, -tor); replacing late Middle English cond(u)itour Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French conduiteur Latin a

Examples for conductor

I, who had engaged as conductor of the Set and found myself their Arbiter as well.

The one was to be, as it were, the conductor, and the other the statesman of the expeditionary corps.

He mistrusted the “shish-kebab temperament” of the conductor, the Armenian Alexander Melik-Pashayev.

The instant when it ends, and the conductor lowers his arms, becomes more fraught than it has any right to be.

Ninety-Sixth Street marks the first delay of the trip, the cause of which is lost in a garbled announcement from the conductor.

Mrs. Reed, the former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad?

The conductor was standing on the pavement when John descended.

"Citizen Defarge," said he to Darnay's conductor, as he took a slip of paper to write on.

I engaged a retired army colonel for a conductor on board my yacht.

Despite attempts to signal the conductor, the train was unable to stop in time, and it crashed into the derailed cars.