EXECUTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executor mean? 

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

1. a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "executor"):

executrix (a woman executor)

Derivation:

execute (carry out the legalities of)

 Context examples 

The original vendors are the executors of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The executor of the estate forced us to sell because the monthly overhead was costly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And though there was no reason in his brain for a clear conception of so abstract a thing as justice, nevertheless, in his own way, he felt the justice of the man-animals, and he knew them for what they were—makers of law and executors of law.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For the truth of everything here related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and, still more, as one of the executors of my father's will, has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With a confidence in Mr Elliot's regard, more creditable to his feelings than his judgement, Mr Smith had appointed him the executor of his will; but Mr Elliot would not act, and the difficulties and distress which this refusal had heaped on her, in addition to the inevitable sufferings of her situation, had been such as could not be related without anguish of spirit, or listened to without corresponding indignation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)