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archconspirator

archconspirator noun: a chief conspirator.

Noun

archconspirator (plural archconspirators)

  1. A chief conspirator.
    • And the third archconspirator--and this is the bad one--the real archconspirator, this is the one with the pencil-thin, waxed mustache […]Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division (page 2890)
    • The jurors listened carefully while Eidem portrayed Fern Sankey as an archconspirator who drove her husband into crime and was intimately involved in all major details of Charlie Boettcher's abduction.2016, Timothy W. Bjorkman, Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy

Forms of archconspirator

pluralarchconspirators

Origin of archconspirator

From arch- + conspirator.

Questions about archconspirator

What does archconspirator mean?
Archconspirator means a chief conspirator.
What part of speech is archconspirator?
Archconspirator is a noun.
What is the plural of archconspirator?
The plural of archconspirator is archconspirators.

Words near archconspirator in the dictionary

  1. archconfraternities
  2. archconfraternity
  3. archconservatism
  4. archconservative
  5. archconservatives
  6. archconspirator
  7. archconspirators
  8. archcriminal
  9. archcriminals
  10. archd
  11. archd.

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