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    ASSASSINATOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (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 deedplay

    Example:

    assassinators of kings and emperors

    Synonyms:

    assassin; assassinator; bravo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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)

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