murderer
NounUS[mur-der-er]/ˈmɝdɚɚ/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)murderers
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)Synonyms: liquidatormanslayerType of criminal, killerKinds assassin, gunslinger, parricide, murderess, serial killer, ripper, cutthroat, hatchet man, fratricide, butcher +2 moreExamples Jack the Ripper
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Translations
Noun person who commits murder
- Spanish
- asesino
- French
- meurtrier
- German
- Mörder
- Italian
- assassino
- Portuguese
- assassino
- Turkish
- katil
- Russian
- уби́йца ubíjca
- Arabic
- قَاتِل qātil
- Chinese
- 凶手 xiōngshǒu
- Japanese
- 殺人者 satsujinsha
26 more languages
- Dutch
- moordenaar
- Polish
- morderca
- Swedish
- mördare
- Greek
- δολοφόνος dolofónos
- Korean
- 살인자 sarinja
- Indonesian
- pembunuh
- Hungarian
- gyilkos
- Portuguese (PT)
- assassino
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 兇手 xiōngshǒu
- Albanian
- vrasës
- Catalan
- assassí
- Czech
- vrah
- Danish
- morder
- Esperanto
- murdisto
- Finnish
- murhaaja
- Georgian
- მკვლელი mḳvleli
- Hebrew
- רוצח roceach
- Icelandic
- morðingi
- Latvian
- slepkava
- Lithuanian
- žmogžudys
- Norwegian
- morder
- Romanian
- criminal
- Scottish Gaelic
- murtair
- Serbo-Croatian
- ubojica
- Slovak
- vrah
- Swahili
- muuaji
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Mur′der·er (mûr′dẽr-ẽr), noun
1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; — called also murdering piece. obsolete
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54