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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. ex['e]cuteur. Cf. Executer.] 1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. An executioner. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Delivering o'er to executors paw? The lazy, yawning drone. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease. [1913 Webster] Executor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

executor n 1: a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will