Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun compiler

2 senses of compiler

Sense 1
compiler -- (a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes))
       => writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2
compiler, compiling program -- ((computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program)
       => program, programme, computer program, computer programme -- ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code")