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Definition: Murderer |
MurdererNoun1. A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "murderer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: MurdererSynonyms: liquidator (n), manslayer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Thief; murderer, terrorist. |
Killing | Butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner. (punishment); man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Murderer |
| English words defined with "murderer": Aegisthus, anticlimactic, assassin, assassinator ♦ blood money, Bloodshedder, bravo, break loose, butcher ♦ Eric, escape ♦ get away ♦ Jack the Ripper ♦ look on ♦ murder mystery, murderess, Murtherer ♦ next-to-last ♦ penultimate, present, Procrustes ♦ ripper ♦ set, Seth ♦ Vaticide ♦ watch, Weregild. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "murderer": Biæum, Bleeding of a Dead Body, BRUTUS ♦ CAESAR ♦ executive ♦ Funny ♦ Gertrude ♦ HOLMES ♦ Idomeneus ♦ MILLER ♦ Nastrond ♦ Werner. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "murderer": fratricide. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The way I'm feeling right now, no mugger or murderer would dare mess with me. (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes) My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook) I offered my services as a scientist, not a murderer. (The Aquarians; writing credit: Alan Caillou; Winston Miller) You're a thief, a murderer, and a violator of women! (Rob Roy; writing credit: Alan Sharp) You don't betray a convicted murderer. (The Fugitive; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Murderer (1966) Hound Murderer Case (1961) Dear Murderer (1947) I Met a Murderer (1939) I'll Name the Murderer (1936) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Execution of the notorious William Burke the murderer, who supplied Dr. Knox with subjects. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Edinburgh medical students examine the skeleton of a notorious nineteenth century murderer and body-snatcher, William Burke. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Haswell.. |
 | $100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shea in the famous play, The bells even the sound of bells may denounce a murderer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Murderer of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt : Gen. Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Robert Browning | Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That, he who has suffered the damage has a right to demand in his own name, and he alone can remit: the damnified person has this power of appropriating to himself the goods or service of the offender, by right of self-preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preserving all mankind, and doing all reasonable things he can in order to that end: and thus it is, that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the example of the punishment that attends it from every body, and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lyon or a tyger, one of those wild savage beasts, with whom men can have no society nor security: and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The murderer turned and saw before him the white cold face of Enjolras. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They said it was the ghost of a murderer. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Are you now going to dispatch this thing? FIRST MURDERER. |
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Human Rights | Kenya | Although police rescued the suspected murderer from the mob, a man was stoned to death as he fled his burning home. (references) |
Mexico | According to wire services, the mother of a convicted murderer reportedly smuggled in the pistols used in the uprising. (references) | |
Kenya | In early May in the Kericho District of Rift Valley Province, a mob attacked a suspected murderer and set fire to many houses in revenge for the killing of a local businessman. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, The Lunarian Astonished -- Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803: LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional? TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself -- I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once. LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce? TERRESTRIAN: Not yet -- at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain. LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer. TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent. LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person -- does it not cause great confusion? TERRESTRIAN: It does. LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course. LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that? TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know? |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Murderer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Murderer" is used about 847 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% | 847 | 8,317 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "murderer": alleged murderer ♦ mass murderer ♦ serial murderer. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "murderer": Giles-the-murderer, wife-murderer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 "murderer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | moordenaar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vrasës (assassin, cutthroat, homicidal, homicide, killer, killing, murderous, slaughterous, slayer, suicidal), gjakësor (sanguinary, sanguinary man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قاتل (assassin, battle, combat, deadly, engage, fight, killer, lethal, manslayer, murdered, murderous, vital, war), سفاك (thug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | убиец (assassinator, butcher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, slaughterer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 凶手 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrah (assassin, cutthroat, homicide, slaughterer, slayer, thug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | morder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | moordenaar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | murdisto, murdinto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | drápsmaður. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قاتل (Assassin, Bane, Cutthroat, Deadly, Killer, Slayer, Thug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | murhamies (assassin, cut-throat), murhaaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | meurtrier (murderous), assassin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | moardner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mörder (assassin, homicide, killer, murder, murderers, slayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φονιάσ (cut throat, killer, slayer), φονεύσ (killer, slayer, thug), δολοφόνοσ (assassin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרצח (assassin, killer), איש "מים, רוצח (assassin, cutthroat, homicide, killer), רצחן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyilkos (bloody, carnal, cutthroat, devastating, homicidal, internecine, killer, lethal gas, mortal, murderous, scathing, slaughterous, slayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembunuh (assassin, cuttroath, killer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | omicida (homicidal, homicide, murderess, murderous), assassino (assassin, cutthroat, grueling, gruellingly, killer, killing, murderous, slayer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 人殺し (murder), 殺人者 (killer), 殺人犯 , 殺害者 (killer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひと"ろし (murder), さつがいしゃ (killer), さつじ"しゃ (killer), さつじ"は". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 살인자 (killer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | marrooder (executioner, exterminator, homicide, killer, slaughterer), dunver (assassin, killer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | asesino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urderermay homicida (assassin, felon, homicidal, homicide, murderess, murderous), assassino (assassin, cutthroat, felon, goon, homicide, killer, killing, murderous, slayer, thug). (various references) ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, felon, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), criminal (criminal, criminally, felon, felonious, flagitious, malefactor, miscreant, misdemeanant, murderous, offender, outrageous, perpetrator, slayer), bandit (bandit, bravo, brigand, gangster, highwayman, ruffian, villain), asasin (assassin, cut throat, homicide, killer, thug). (various references) убийца (assassin, assissin, basher, gorilla, homicide, killer, knifeman, murderess, slayer, thug). (various references) mortair. (various references) ubica (assassin, assassinator, cain, killer, slayer). (various references) asesino (assassin, cutthroat, killer, murderous, slaughterer, slayer). (various references) mördare (assassin, cut throat, cutthroat, cut-throat, homicide, killer). (various references) ฆาตกร. (various references) katil (assassin, cutthroat, homicide, killer, murderess, slaughterer, slayer, thug, Thumper), cani (bravo, butcher, cutthroat, felon, homicide, malefactor, villain). (various references) ganhor.Turkmen/English Dictionary 100. (various references) убивця (basher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, slayer, thug). (various references) kẻ giết người (cutthroat, manslayer, slayer). (various references) llofrudd (assassin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carnificem, homicida, homicidae, homicidam, homicidas, homicidis, interfector, interfectorem, interfectores, interfectoris, interfectorum, occisor, percussor, percussorem, percussoribus, percussoris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | UmeiV de ton agion kai dikaion hrnhsasqe kai hthsasqe andra fonea carisqhnai umin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vos autem sanctum et iustum negastis et petistis virum homicidam donari vobis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But ye denyeden the hooli and the riytful, and axiden a mansleer to be youun to you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But ye denyed the holy and iust and desyred a mortherar to be geven you |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But ye denied the Holy One, and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you, |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 14 |
| Albanian | Por ju e mohuat të Shenjtin, të Drejtin, dhe kërkuat që t'ju jepej një vrasës, |
| Cebuano | Apan inyong gidumilian ang Balaan ug Matarung, ug inyong gipangayo nga maoy buhian alang kaninyo ang usa ka mamomuno, |
| Chinese | 們 棄 絕 了 那 聖 " 公 義 者 、 反 求 著 釋 " 一 個 兇 手 給 們 ． |
| Croatian | Vi se odrekoste Sveca i Pravednika, a izmoliste da vam se daruje ubojica. |
| Danish | Men I fornægtede den hellige og retfærdige og bade om, at en Morder måtte skænkes eder. |
| Dutch | Maar gij hebt den Heilige en Rechtvaardige verloochend, en hebt begeerd, dat u een man, die een doodslager was, zou geschonken worden; |
| Finnish | Te kielsitte Pyhän ja Vanhurskaan ja anoitte, että teille annettaisiin murhamies, |
| French | Vous avez renié le Saint et le Juste, et vous avez demandé qu`on vous accordât la grâce d`un meurtrier. |
| German | Ihr aber verleugnetet den Heiligen und Gerechten und batet, daß man euch den Mörder schenkte; |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi se moun Bondye te chwazi a, li te mache dwat devan Bondye, men nou voye l' jete, nou te pito mande Pilat pou l' te lage yon ansasen ban nou. |
| Hungarian | Ti pedig azt a szentet és igazat megtagadátok és kívánátok, hogy a gyilkos ember bocsáttassék el néktek, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia suci dan baik, tetapi kalian menentang Dia dan mendesak supaya Pilatus melepaskan seorang pembunuh untuk kalian. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi kamu ini menyangkali Orang yang Kudus dan Benar itu, serta memintakan seorang pembunuh dilepaskan sebagai suatu karunia kepadamu. |
| Italian | voi invece avete rinnegato il Santo e il Giusto, avete chiesto che vi fosse graziato un assassino |
| Latvian | Svçto un Taisnîgo jûs noliedzât un lûdzât, lai jums dod slepkavu. |
| Maori | Otira whakakahoretia ana e koutou te Mea Tapu, te Mea Tika, tonoa ana ko te tangata kohuru kia homai ki a koutou; |
| Norwegian | men I fornektet den hellige og rettferdige og bad at en morder måtte gis eder, |
| Rumanian | Voi v`ayi lepqdat de Cel Sfknt wi Neprihqnit, wi ayi cerut sq vi se dqruiascq un ucigaw. |
| Russian | оП ЧЩ ПФ уЧСФПЗП Й рТБЧЕ"ОПЗП ПФТЕЛМЙУШ, Й ТПУЙМЙ "БТПЧБФШ ЧБН ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ Х'ЙК"Х, |
| Shuar | Jesus pénker Nákak Enentáimniuyana nu "akupnakchati" Tímiarme. Antsu Shuáran main akupnakat tusarum wakerimiarme. |
| Spanish | Pero vosotros negasteis al Santo y Justo; pedisteis que se os diese un hombre asesino, |
| Swahili | Alikuwa mtakatifu na mwema; lakini ninyi mlimkataa, mkataka mtu mwingine aliyekuwa muuaji afunguliwe. |
| Swedish | Ja, I förnekaden honom, den helige och rättfärdige, och begärden att en dråpare skulle givas åt eder. |
| Uma | Moroli' pai' monoa' -i-hana, hiaa' nisapuaka-i, pai' niperapi' hi Pilatus bona nabahaka-kokoi hadua topepatehi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "murderer": murderers. (additional references) | |
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"Murderer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Modderbee, mudeer, Muiderberg, Munderic, Muradiye, murderee, Murerwa, murtherer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "murderer" (pronounced mer"derer) |
| 3 | -d er er | embroiderer, hinderer, launderer, wanderer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: demurrer. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-r-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: demurer. | |
-2 letters: demure, murder. | |
-3 letters: demur, erred, merde, merer, mured, murre, ruder. | |
-4 letters: deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dree, drum, dure, durr, emeu, meed, mere, mure, murr, rede, reed, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-5 letters: dee, due, eme, emu, ere, err, med, mud, red, ree, rem, rue, rum, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-r-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: demurrers, murderers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 72 64 65 72 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- .-. -.. . .-. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u r d e r e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0072 0064 0065 0072 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4787847071847184 |
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