HOMICIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homicide mean? 

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

1. the killing of a human being by another human being

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMICIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The killing of a human being by another human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

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

honor killing (an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image)

manslaughter (homicide without malice aforethought)

execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

shooting (killing someone by gunfire)

Derivation:

homicidal (characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being)

 Context examples 

Causes of death attributable to homicide or resulting from legal police intervention.

(Homicide and Legal Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

Alcoholism also increases the risk of death from car crashes, injuries, homicide, and suicide.

(Alcoholism, NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)