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Webster 1913 Edition

Excavator

Ex′ca-vaˊtor

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Noun.

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Webster 1828 Edition

Excavator

EX'CAVATOR

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Noun.

One who excavates.

Definition 2024

excavator

excavator

English

Noun

excavator ‎(plural excavators)

A person who excavates
A curette used to scrape out pathological material
A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger

Translations

person who excavates

Bulgarian: копач (bg) m ‎(kopač)
Catalan: excavador (ca) m

Portuguese: excavador m, cavador (pt) m
Russian: землеко́п (ru) m ‎(zemlekóp), экскава́торщик (ru) m ‎(ekskavátorščik) (excavator operator)
Swedish: grävare c

curette used to scrape out pathological material

Dutch: curette f

vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe

Arabic: حَفَّارَة f ‎(ḥaffāra), حَفَّارَة آلِيَّة f ‎(ḥaffāra ʾāliyya), حَفَّارَة مِيكَانِيكِيَّة f ‎(ḥaffāra mīkānīkiyya)
Belarusian: экскава́тар (be) m ‎(ekskavátar)
Bulgarian: ба́гер (bg) m ‎(báger), екскава́тор (bg) m ‎(ekskavátor)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 掘土機 (zh), 掘土机 (zh) ‎(juétǔjī), 挖掘機 (zh), 挖掘机 (zh) ‎(wājuéjī), 挖土機 (zh), 挖土机 (zh) ‎(wātǔjī)
Crimean Tatar: ekskavator
Czech: bagr (cs) m, exkavátor m
Danish: gravemaskine, gravko c
Faroese: gravkúgv f
Finnish: kaivinkone (fi)
French: excavateur (fr) m
German: Bagger (de) m, Aushubmaschine f
Icelandic: grafa (is) f

Japanese: 掘削機 ‎(くっさくき, kussakuki), ショベル ‎(shoberu)
Korean: 굴착기 (ko) ‎(gulchakgi)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: gravemaskin (no) m

Nynorsk: gravemaskin m, f
Persian: بیل مکانیکی
Polish: koparka (pl) f
Portuguese: excavadora f
Russian: экскава́тор (ru) m ‎(ekskavátor)
Slovak: bager m
Spanish: excavadora (es) f
Swedish: grävmaskin (sv) c, grävskopa c, grävare c
Tagalog: pamungkal
Ukrainian: екскава́тор m ‎(ekskavátor)

External links

excavator on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Verb

excavātor

second-person singular future passive imperative of excavō
third-person singular future passive imperative of excavō