MANSLAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manslayer mean? 

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

1. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANSLAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

liquidator; manslayer; murderer

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

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

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

assassin; assassinator; bravo (a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed)

butcher (a brutal indiscriminate murderer)

cutthroat (someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat)

fratricide (a person who murders their brother or sister)

gun; gun for hire; gunman; gunslinger; hired gun; hit man; hitman; shooter; torpedo; triggerman (a professional killer who uses a gun)

hatchet man; iceman (a professional killer)

infanticide (a person who murders an infant)

mass murderer (a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident)

murderess (a woman murderer)

parricide (someone who kills his or her parent)

ripper (a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife)

serial killer; serial murderer (someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval)

Instance hyponyms:

Jack the Ripper (an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century)