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felicide

felicide noun: the killing of a cat.

Noun

felicide (countable and uncountable, plural felicides)

  1. The killing of a cat.

felicide meaning in Tamil and Bengali

felicide in Tamil

பூனைக் கொல்லி

felicide in Bengali

কোনো বিড়ালকে হত্যা করা

Synonyms of felicide

Forms of felicide

pluralfelicides

Origin of felicide

From Latin fēlis (“cat”) + -cide.

Words formed from felicide

Questions about felicide

What does felicide mean?
Felicide means the killing of a cat.
What is felicide in Tamil?
Felicide in Tamil is பூனைக் கொல்லி. See Felicide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is felicide?
Felicide is a noun.
What is the plural of felicide?
The plural of felicide is felicides.

Words near felicide in the dictionary

  1. Felician
  2. Feliciana
  3. Felicians
  4. felicias
  5. felicidal
  6. felicide
  7. felicific
  8. felicific calculus
  9. felicifically
  10. felicificity
  11. felicitate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: felicide (page history and authors); felicide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); felicide (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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