🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

开发者

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kāifāzhě

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Developer/dɪˈvɛl.ə.pər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这位开发者精通多种编程语言。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or company that creates, designs, or builds computer software or applications.

    "The software developer spent the entire afternoon debugging the new application."
  2. 2

    A person or organization that purchases land or buildings in order to renovate them or build new structures for profit.

    "The property developer plans to build a modern apartment complex on the vacant lot."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'develop', originating from Old French 'developper' (meaning to unwrap, unfold, or reveal), which traces back to Germanic roots combining a privative prefix with a base meaning to wrap. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from physical unwrapping to the intellectual and economic expansion of ideas, land, and eventually software systems in the 20th century.

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