murderer

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsliquidatormanslayer

   Broadercriminalkiller

   Narrowerassassinbutchercutthroatfratricidegunmanhatchet maninfanticidemass murderermurderessparricide

Other forms of murderer

plural

murderers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about murderer

What does murderer mean?

murderer means "a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)".

How many syllables are in murderer?

murderer has 3 syllables: mur-de-rer. The stress falls on "mur". In IPA it is /ˈmɝdɚɚ/.

What is another word for murderer?

Close synonyms include liquidator, manslayer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is murderer a common word?

murderer is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.