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Definition: Manslaughter |
ManslaughterNoun1. Unlawful killing of a human being without malice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "manslaughter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | For a woman to dream that she sees, or is in any way connected with, manslaughter, denotes that she will be desperately scared lest her name be coupled with some scandalous sensation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: ManslaughterSynonyms: Homicide, Homicides, Murder. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Manslaughter |
| Specialty definitions using "manslaughter": ACCIDENT-PREVENTION-SQUAD POLICE OFFICER ♦ crash-squad accident investigator ♦ intentional homicide ♦ negligent manslaughter ♦ voluntary manslaughter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ozzy, no no no no no, here's the fruit! Ozzy, not the wood, you could be picked up for manslaughter! (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garca Estrada) Vehicular manslaughter, reckless endangerment, possession of controlled substances, possession of a deadly weapon, violation of parole. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Manslaughter (1930) | |
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Human Rights | Sweden | One guard was charged with manslaughter and was awaiting trial at year's end. (references) |
France | The judge attributed all fault to a doctor who is serving a sentence for involuntary manslaughter. (references) | |
Brazil | The verdict followed a court decision allowing the youths to be tried for aggravated homicide rather than manslaughter. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Norway | Authorities charged three young persons with aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter for their role in the killing; all three were linked to a neo-nazi organization. (references) |
Minorities | Egypt | One defendant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison and 3 defendants were convicted of arson and sentenced to 1 year in prison. (references) |
Slovak Republic | On March 30, the District Military Court in Banska Bystrica sentenced the chief defendant in the crime, Peter Bandur to 7 years in prison on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | Three Timorese who admitted killing three U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) workers in West Timor were brought to trial in Indonesia and charged with manslaughter instead of murder. (references) |
Women | Netherlands | Each year approximately 50,000 women suffer from serious violence, (defined as battering, physical and mental abuse, manslaughter, and sexual violence), and 60 to 80 die of domestic violence. (references) |
Jordan | Although few defendants are able to meet the stringent requirements for a crime of honor defense (the defendant personally must have witnessed the female victim engaging in sexual relations), most avoid trial for the crime of murder, and are tried instead on the charge of manslaughter; even those convicted of murder rarely spend more than 2 years in prison. (references) | |
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| "Manslaughter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manslaughter" is used about 496 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 496 | 12,115 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "manslaughter": negligent manslaughter ♦ voluntary manslaughter. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "manslaughter": Murder-manslaughter. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
manslaughter | 50 |
vehicular manslaughter | 25 |
involuntary manslaughter | 22 |
voluntary manslaughter | 11 |
dui manslaughter | 8 |
definition manslaughter | 7 |
canada charge in manslaughter | 7 |
canada in manslaughter | 4 |
bush laura manslaughter | 4 |
canada case charge in in laid manslaughter | 3 |
manslaughter murder | 2 |
dwi manslaughter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "manslaughter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrasje pa paramendim, vrasje njeriu, vrasje e thjeshtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قتل غير متعمد, قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непредумишлено убийство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 过失杀人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zabití (kill, killing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onvrijwillige doodslag (accidental homocide, involuntary manslaughter), doding (accidental homocide, involuntary manslaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قتل نفس , ادمکشی (Murder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tappo (killing), kuolemantuottamus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | homicide involontaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | totschlag (homicide, murder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακούσιοσ φόνοσ, ανθρωποκτονία εξ αμέλειασ, ανθρωποκτονία (homicide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "רי'ת א"ם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szándékos emberölés (voluntary homicide, wilful murder), emberölés (homicide, murder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | omicidio colposo (homicide, murder, negligent homicide, negligent manslaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 故殺 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "さつ (ancient temple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 과실치사. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mort, far-ghunverys, dunverys neuvyskidagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anslaughtermay mortandade (carnage, massacre, mortality rate, slaughter), solar (Barton, manor, mansion, resole, solar). (various references) omor prin imprudenţã. (various references) умерщвление (killing), убийство (assassination, homicide, kill, murder), человекоубийство. (various references) ubistvo bez predoumišljaja. (various references) homicidio involuntario. (various references) dråp (homicide, man-slaughter, murder). (various references) kazara adam öldürme (homicide by misadventure), kasıtsız öldürme, adam öldürme (assassination, homicide, murder, thuggee), öldürme (destruction, dispatch, kill, killing, murder, putting to death). (various references) ненавмисне вбивство, людиновбивство. (various references) dyn-laddiad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "manslaughter": manslaughters. (additional references) | |
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"Manslaughter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manlaughter, manslaugter, manslaugther, manslaute, manslauter, manslsughter, manslughter, maslaughter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "manslaughter" (pronounced ma"nslô'ter) |
| 3 | -ô' t er | backwater, breakwater, deepwater, floodwater, freshwater, granddaughter, headwater, rainwater, stepdaughter, Tidewater, underwater, wastewater. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-h-l-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: granulates. | |
-3 letters: ageratums, angulates, argentums, argumenta, arguments, gastrulae, granulate, gunmetals, hamstrung, harangues, laughters, menstrual, runagates, slaughter, thesaural. | |
-4 letters: ageratum, agrestal, almagest, amateurs, angulate, antheral, arethusa, argental, argentum, argument, asternal, augments, earthman, enthrals, gamelans, garments, gastrula, gestural, granules, gruntles, gunmetal, hamulate, harangue, haulages, haunters, humanest, humerals, languets, laughers, laughter, lutherns, magentas, magnates, mahuangs, managers, manglers, manteaus, margents, maternal, megastar, menstrua, mensural, mutagens, nametags, naturals, neutrals, numerals, runagate, sarmenta, staumrel, strangle, talesman, tanagers, tanglers, tangrams, thalamus, thanages, thermals, trangams, trashman, trashmen, trehalas, unearths, urethans. | |
-5 letters: agnates, alarums, alegars, almners, altheas, alumnae, amateur, amulets, angelus, anglers, angular, anlages, anthems, anthers, antlers, antrums, argents, armlets, arsenal, augment, austral, eluants, engluts, engrams, enthral, estrual, galenas, gamelan, garment, garnets, gastral, gastrea, gateaus, gateman, gathers, gaunter, gelants, germans, glutens, gnathal, grahams, granule, gruntle, guanase, gurnets, halters, hamates, hamauls, hamlets, hamster, hamular, hangars, hangers, hantles, harslet, hartals, haulage, haulers, haunter, hematal, hetmans, humaner, humates, humeral, hungers, hunters, hurtles, hustler, laagers, lagunas, lagunes, laments, lamster, langues, languet, langurs, largest, lasagne, lathers, laugher, lengths, lungers, luthern, magenta, magnate, magnets, mahuang, malates, maltase, malthas, manager, manages, mangels, mangers, mangler, mangles, manteau, mantels, mantles, mantras, mantuas, manuals, manures, margent, marshal, martens, matures, maulers, meshuga, muletas, munster, mustang, mutagen, nametag, natural, natures, naughts, neutral, numeral, nutmegs, raglans, ramenta, ranulae, ranulas, regmata, rehangs, rentals, rhamnus, runlets, sagamen, saltern, saluter, sarment, saunter, sealant, serumal, shunter, slather, smarten, stengah, sternal, sternum, strange, strumae, sultana, surname, tamales, tanager, tangler, tangles, tangram, teargas, tegular, thalers, thanage, thenars, thermal, tramels, trangam, traumas, trehala, unearth, unhelms, unleash, unsmart, urethan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-h-l-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: manslaughters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 73 6C 61 75 67 68 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -. ... .-.. .- ..- --. .... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n s l a u g h t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0073 006C 0061 0075 0067 0068 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476780857867877374867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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