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PUBLIC EXECUTIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public executioner mean? 

PUBLIC EXECUTIONER (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC EXECUTIONER has 1 sense:

1. an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrantplay

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC EXECUTIONER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUBLIC EXECUTIONER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

executioner; public executioner

Hypernyms ("public executioner" is a kind of...):

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

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

electrocutioner (an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person)

hangman (an executioner who hangs the condemned person)

headman; headsman (an executioner who beheads the condemned person)


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