"understander" meaning in English

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          "text": "I am not a speed reader, I am a speed understander.",
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          "text": "\"You knew Mr. Kampf intimately?\"\n\"Yes, I guess so.\" She smiled as one understander to another.",
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          "text": "These are the people of the brain, after all, the understanders.",
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        "One who understands something."
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          "sense": "one who understands",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "one who understands",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Versteher"
        },
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "one who understands",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Versteherin"
        },
        {
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "one who understands",
          "word": "arvaaja"
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          "sense": "one who understands",
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          "sense": "one who understands",
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        "One who physically supports a formation of acrobats, as a human pyramid."
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        "(circus, acrobatics) One who physically supports a formation of acrobats, as a human pyramid."
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      "sense": "one who understands",
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      "sense": "one who understands",
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      ],
      "word": "Versteher"
    },
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      "sense": "one who understands",
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      "sense": "one who understands",
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  "word": "understander"
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        "(circus, acrobatics) One who physically supports a formation of acrobats, as a human pyramid."
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