CAPTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does captor mean? 

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

1. a person who captures and holds people or animals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who captures and holds people or animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

captor; capturer

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "captor"):

abductor; kidnaper; kidnapper; snatcher (someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom))

surpriser (a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim)

Antonym:

liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)

 Context examples 

The prisoner had raised himself with some difficulty upon the sofa and was staring with a strange mixture of amazement and hatred at his captor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gomez whipped out his knife, however, and but for the huge strength of his captor, which enabled him to disarm him with one hand, he would certainly have stabbed him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All sullenness and defiance disappeared, and he talked sociably with his captors, and even with flashes of his old-time wit.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Prisoners and captors hiccoughed on one another’s shoulders, and swore mighty oaths of respect and esteem.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

On their journey home through the woods Alleyne learnt their wondrous story: how, when Sir Nigel came to his senses, he with his fellow-captive had been hurried to the coast, and conveyed by sea to their captor's castle; how upon the way they had been taken by a Barbary rover, and how they exchanged their light captivity for a seat on a galley bench and hard labor at the pirate's oars; how, in the port at Barbary, Sir Nigel had slain the Moorish captain, and had swum with Aylward to a small coaster which they had taken, and so made their way to England with a rich cargo to reward them for their toils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The lobes of their ears, hanging ragged and bloody, showed that they had been pierced for some ornaments which their captors had torn out.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)