POISONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poisoner mean? 

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

1. someone who kills with poison

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who kills with poison

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

Derivation:

poison (kill with poison)

 Context examples 

Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)