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assassinee

Syllables: as·sas·sin·ee/əˈsæsɪniː//əˈsæsəni/

assassinee noun: one who is assassinated.

Noun

assassinee (plural assassinees)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard, often) One who is assassinated.
    • In some ways I regret the failure to arrive at a definite conclusion, but it has provided me with an extremely interesting list of suicides and assassinees that includes such great names as Hannibal, [Julius] Cæsar, [Thomas] More, [Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of] Strafford, [Robert] Clive...1924 March, A[ubrey] Wyatt Tilby, “A Study in Life Values”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, volume XCV, number DLXV, London: Constable & Company […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 462
    • The general rule, I suppose, is that if the assassinee is deep enough sunk in turpitude the assassin may secure an honourable place in history.1941, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume 167, London: F. C. Westley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 228, column 1
    Synonyms:
    assassinatee

Examples of assassinee in a sentence

  • On entering the city room, I was met by the managing editor, who asked me if I knew that the assassinee’s brother-in-law owned the money behind the paper.1953, A[bbott] J[oseph] Liebling, “The Navasota Murder”, in The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo, Garden...
  • "Who was it?" / "They haven't caught him yet." / "I mean the—the assassinee." / "Nobody important.1958 October 24, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment, London: The Reprint Society, published 1960, →OCLC, part...

Synonyms of assassinee

Forms of assassinee

pluralassassinees

Origin of assassinee

From assassin(ate) + -ee (suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done).

Words that rhyme with assassinee

Questions about assassinee

What does assassinee mean?
Assassinee means one who is assassinated.
How do you use assassinee in a sentence?
On entering the city room, I was met by the managing editor, who asked me if I knew that the assassinee’s brother-in-law owned the money behind the paper.
What part of speech is assassinee?
Assassinee is a noun.
How do you pronounce assassinee?
Assassinee is pronounced /əˈsæsɪniː/ (UK).
What is the plural of assassinee?
The plural of assassinee is assassinees.

Words near assassinee in the dictionary

  1. assassinatress
  2. assassinatresses
  3. assassinatrices
  4. assassinatrix
  5. assassined
  6. assassinee
  7. assassinees
  8. assassining
  9. assassinism
  10. assassinlike
  11. assassinous

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