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Definition: Homicide |
HomicideNoun1. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homicide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Homicide \Hom"i*cide\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression homicidium, from homicida man slayer; homo man caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and compare to Concise, Shed, transitive verb]. (references) |
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Satire | HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you commit homicide, foretells that you will suffer great anguish and humiliation through the indifference of others, and your gloomy surroundings will cause perplexing worry to those close to you. To dream that a friend commits suicide, you will have trouble in deciding a very important question. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | The killing of one person by another. (references) |
Military & Defense | An act which causes the death of a person. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Homicide is the unlawful killing of another human being. Legally homicide can be classified into cases of murder, manslaughter, or justifiable homicide. Defenses against homicide include insanity or self-defense. Defense of property is typically not a defense against homicide, nor is the legal justification of necessity a defense.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Homicide."
Synonym: HomicideSynonym: slaying (n). (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. |
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Crosswords: Homicide |
| English words defined with "homicide": Cities of refuge, corpus delicti ♦ Homicide by misadventure ♦ liquidator ♦ manslayer, murderer ♦ record. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homicide": ACCIDENT-PREVENTION-SQUAD POLICE OFFICER ♦ crash-squad accident investigator ♦ intentional homicide ♦ negligent homicide, negligent manslaughter ♦ POLICE OFFICER, IDENTIFICATION AND RECORDS ♦ SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ♦ voluntary manslaughter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "homicide": suicide. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Homicide" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (homicidal, homicide, killing, manslaughter). |
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Screenplays | She's delusional, fears God, etc. She wants to kill her self, but then she realizes that teen suicide is out this year, and homicide is a much healthier therapeutic expression (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) I don't know about homicide, but you've sure got me for raising my voice in a public library (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) That might be grounds for justifiable homicide. (Rope; writing credit: Patrick Hamilton; Hume Cronyn) | |
Lyrics | Starkweather, homicide, children of Thalidomide (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hollywood Homicide (2003) Homicide (1964) Hidden Homicide (1958) Calling Homicide (1956) Homicide (1949) | |
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 | Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC. |  | Line graph showing rate of homicide among adults aged 65 years and older, by race and sex--United States, 1987-1996. Credit: CDC. |
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| Author | Quotation |
George Savile | Misspending a man's time is a kind of self homicide. |
St. Cyprian | Held to be a crime when committed by individuals, homicide is called a virtue when committed by the state. |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks |
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Health | Tobacco kills more than 430,000 U.S. citizens each year-more than alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire, and AIDS combined. (references) | |
Children | Switzerland | The mother's jail term was extended by another 3 months for abandonment and negligent homicide. (references) |
Brazil | Homicide is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14, and only 1.9 percent of murderers are serving prison sentences. (references) | |
Brazil | Of all deaths of 15- to 19-year-olds, 72 percent are due to causes such as homicide, suicide, and traffic accidents, which reduces by at least 3 years the average life expectancy of men. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | Garcia received an 18-year prison sentence for homicide and carrying a weapon without permit, but Ramirez was absolved. (references) |
Mozambique | On September 3, the judge presiding over the case ordered six of the defendants to be brought to trial on charges of homicide and accessories to homicide. (references) | |
Bangladesh | No progress has been made in the prosecution of the persons accused in the homicide case of Shamsur Rahman, the Jessore correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Janakantha who was killed at his office in July 2000. Sixteen persons, including five journalists, were charged with the murder of the journalist who also was a BBC Bangla Service employee. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | With an overall homicide rate ten times that of the United States, Colombia continues to be listed among the most dangerous countries in the world. (references) |
Human Rights | El Salvador | The officers were charged with homicide. (references) |
Guatemala | ORP received 14 cases of homicide between January and July. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | In June four persons were detained in El Estor as suspects in a homicide case. (references) |
Minorities | Germany | The trial of 11 rightwing extremists charged with the February 1999 death of Algerian asylum seeker Farid Guendoul in Brandenburg ended in November 2000 with the convictions of 8 defendants on charges of negligent homicide and of all 11 for lesser charges. (references) |
Women | Trinidad and Tobago | Murder, rape, and other crimes against women are reported frequently; 30 percent of all female homicide victims were believed to have been killed by their husbands or lovers. (references) |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The emperor Claudius, by an edict, gave freedom to such of them as should recover, and first declared that if any person chose to kill rather than expose them, it should be deemed homicide. |
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| "Homicide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Homicide" is used about 150 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) | 96.67% | 145 | 26,217 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 150 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homicide": commit homicide ♦ culpable homicide ♦ excusable homicide ♦ homicide by misadventure ♦ homicide squad ♦ intentional homicide ♦ negligent homicide. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "homicide": non-homicide, Self-homicide. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "homicide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrasje (battue, despatch, dispatch, kill, killing, murder, sleep), vrasës (assassin, cutthroat, homicidal, killer, killing, murderer, murderous, slaughterous, slayer, suicidal). (various references) | |
Arabic | قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), القتل (killing), القاتل (assassin, killer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убийство (assassination, kill, killing, removal), убиец (assassinator, butcher, cutthroat, killer, murderer, slaughterer), полицейско отделение 'убийства'. (various references) | |
Chinese | 杀人, 殺人 (to kill, to murder). (various references) | |
Czech | zabití èlovìka, vrah (assassin, cutthroat, murderer, slaughterer, slayer, thug), vražedník. (various references) | |
Farsi | قتل (Murder), ادم کشی . (various references) | |
Finnish | henkirikos (felonious homicide). (various references) | |
French | homicide (homicidal). (various references) | |
German | totschlag (manslaughter), mord (murder). (various references) | |
Greek | ανθρωποκτονία (manslaughter). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רוצח (assassin, cutthroat, killer, murderer), רצח (assassination, foul play, murder). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyilkosság (murder), emberölés (manslaughter, murder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembunuhan (assassination, killing, murder, slaying). (various references) | |
Italian | Omicidio (murder). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 過失致死罪 (accidental homicide, involuntary manslaughter), 過失致死 (accidental homicide, involuntary manslaughter), 殺人鬼 (cutthroat, devilish homicide). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さつじんき (cutthroat, devilish homicide), かしつちしざい (accidental homicide, involuntary manslaughter), かしつちし (accidental homicide, involuntary manslaughter). (various references) | |
Korean | 치사죄. (various references) | |
Manx | marrooder (executioner, exterminator, killer, murderer, slaughterer), fuillaghtagh (blood shedder, endurable; bloodthirsty, passive, patient, shedding blood, suffering; sufferable, tolerable), dunverys (assassination, murder, slaughter). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mord. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omicidehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homicdio, homicida (assassin, felon, homicidal, murderer, murderess, murderous), assassino (assassin, cutthroat, felon, goon, killer, killing, murderer, murderous, slayer, thug). (various references) | |
Romanian | ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, felon, homicidal, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), omucidere, omor (bane, carnage, murder, slaughter), crimã (crime, delinquency, felony, maleficence, misdeed, murder, offence, outrage, removal, sin), asasin (assassin, cut throat, killer, murderer, thug). (various references) | |
Russian | убийство (assassination). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ubistvo (assassination, murder). (various references) | |
Spanish | homicidio (murder), homicida (grueling, gruellingly, homicidal, murderer, murderess), matar (kill, slay, butcher, slaughter). (various references) | |
Swedish | dråp (murder). (various references) | |
Thai | ฆาตกรรม (murder). (various references) | |
Turkish | katil (assassin, cutthroat, killer, murderer, murderess, slaughterer, slayer, thug, Thumper), cinayet masası ekibi (homicide squad), cinayet (crime, criminal, enormity, felony, killing, murder), cani (bravo, butcher, cutthroat, felon, malefactor, murderer, villain), adam öldürme (assassination, manslaughter, murder, thuggee). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убивство (killing, murder), убивця (basher, cutthroat, killer, murderer, slayer, thug), убивати (deaden, finish off, kill, murder, pick off, put to death, slay, thug). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | homicida, homicidae, homicidam, homicidas, homicidia, homicidii, homicidiis, homicidio, homicidis, homicidium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homicide": homicides. (additional references) | |
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"Homicide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Formicidae, homcide, Homeside, homiside, homocide, ovicide, Thomisidae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homicide" (pronounced hÄ"musī'd) |
| 5 | -m u s ī' d | germicide. |
| 4 | -u s ī' d | fratricide, fungicide, genocide, glucoside, glycoside, herbicide, infanticide, insecticide, pesticide, prophesied, suicide. |
| 3 | -s ī' d | backside, bedside, blindside, broadside, countryside, curbside, dioxide, Ironside, lakeside, dockside, downside, fireside, graveside, harborside, hillside, mountainside, oxide, peroxide, poolside, ringside, riverside, roadside, seaside, silverside, superoxide, underside, wayside. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-i-m-o" | |
-2 letters: chimed, hemoid, medico, miched. | |
-3 letters: chemo, chide, chime, domic, hemic, homed, idiom, imide, imido, iodic, medic, medii, miche, ohmic. | |
-4 letters: cedi, chid, code, coed, come, deco, demo, dice, dime, dome, echo, emic, hide, hied, hoed, home, iced, idem, imid, mice, midi, mode, modi, odic, ohed. | |
-5 letters: chi, cod, die, dim, doc, doe, dom, edh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-i-m-o" | |
+1 letter: homicides. | |
+3 letters: dichogamies, dichotomies, dichotomize, methodistic. | |
+4 letters: dichotomized, dichotomizes, immethodical, indomethacin, radiochemist. | |
+5 letters: cycloheximide, indomethacins, perichondrium, radiochemical, radiochemists. | |
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