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captivator

captivator noun: a person who captivates, or holds one captive.

Noun

captivator (plural captivators)

  1. A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
    • Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.1858, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages

Forms of captivator

pluralcaptivators

Words formed from captivator

Questions about captivator

What does captivator mean?
Captivator means a person who captivates, or holds one captive.
What part of speech is captivator?
Captivator is a noun.
What is the plural of captivator?
The plural of captivator is captivators.

Words near captivator in the dictionary

  1. captivatingly
  2. captivatingness
  3. captivation
  4. captivations
  5. captivative
  6. captivator
  7. captivators
  8. captivatress
  9. captivatresses
  10. captivatrix
  11. captive

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