public executioner

1. 1.

   an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

   Synonymsexecutioner

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Questions about public executioner

What does public executioner mean?

public executioner means "an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant".

What is another word for public executioner?

Close synonyms include executioner. 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 public executioner a common word?

public executioner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.