Word.ws English Dictionary

killership

killership noun: the state of being a killer; the body of skills and personal traits required to be a killer.

Noun

killership (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state of being a killer; the body of skills and personal traits required to be a killer.
    • Killership requires a person to become brave and polite. It is not deal of weakwilled and spineless people. This deal likes neither cheating nor foolishness.2012, Vagif Sultanly, Iraj Ismaely, Modern Azerbaijanian Prose

Origin of killership

From killer + -ship.

Questions about killership

What does killership mean?
Killership means the state of being a killer; the body of skills and personal traits required to be a killer.
What part of speech is killership?
Killership is a noun.

Words near killership in the dictionary

  1. killeress
  2. killeresses
  3. killerish
  4. killerly
  5. killers
  6. killership
  7. killery
  8. Killes
  9. killese
  10. killeses
  11. Killeshandra

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: killership (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “killership.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/killership. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.