ASSASSINATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assassinator mean? 

• ASSASSINATOR (noun)
  The noun ASSASSINATOR has 1 sense:

1. a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

  Familiarity information: ASSASSINATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSASSINATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

assassin; assassinator; bravo

Context example:

assassinators of kings and emperors

Hypernyms ("assassinator" is a kind of...):

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

Instance hyponyms:

Booth; John Wilkes Booth (United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865))

Lee Harvey Oswald; Oswald (United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963))

Derivation:

assassinate (murder; especially of socially prominent persons)