AVENGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avenger mean? 

• AVENGER (noun)
  The noun AVENGER has 1 sense:

1. someone who takes vengeance

  Familiarity information: AVENGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVENGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes vengeance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

avenger; retaliator

Hypernyms ("avenger" is a kind of...):

aggressor; assailant; assaulter; attacker (someone who attacks)

Derivation:

avenge (take revenge for a perceived wrong)

 Context examples 

At night, however, he slept alone, and the avenger might find him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard a sharp rustle, the night air blew into the heated room, and the avenger was gone.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Knight and squire gazed from rogue to avenger, but as it was a matter which none could mend they tarried no longer, but rode upon their way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)