murderer
Syllables: mur·der·erUK/ˈmɜːdəɹə//ˈmɝdɚɚ/
murderer noun: a person who commits murder.
Noun
murderer (plural murderers)
- A person who commits murder.
- Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
- It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 37
murderer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
murderer in Hindi
- person who commits murder
- हत्यारा hatyārā, ख़ूनी xūnī, क़ातिल qātil
murderer in Tamil
- person who commits murder
- கொலைகாரன் kolaikāraṉ
murderer in Marathi
- person who commits murder
- खुनी khunī
murderer in Urdu
- person who commits murder
- قاتل qātil, خونی xūnī
More languagesFewer languages
- murderer in Bengali
- খুনী khuni, কাতেল qatel
- murderer in Telugu
- హంతకుడు hantakuḍu
- murderer in Malayalam
- കൊലപാതകി kolapātaki
- murderer in Kannada
- ಕೊಲೆಗಾರ kolegāra
- murderer in Punjabi
- ਕਾਤਲ
- murderer in Gujarati
- હત્યારો hatyāro
- murderer in Sanskrit
- घातक ghātaka, ताडक tāḍaka
- murderer in Sinhala
- මිනීමරුවා minīmaruwā
- murderer in Nepali
- हत्यारा, हत्याराको
- murderer in Pashto
- قاتل qātél, خوني xuní
- murderer in Arabic
- قَاتِل qātil, قَاتِلَة qātila
- murderer in Malay
- pembunuh
- murderer in Indonesian
- pembunuh
- murderer in Persian
- قاتل qâtel, آدمکش âdamkoš
- murderer in Thai
- ฆาตกร kâat-dtà-gɔɔn
- murderer in Vietnamese
- kẻ giết người
- murderer in Myanmar
- လူသတ်သမား lusatsa.ma:
Examples of murderer in a sentence
- The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and...
- I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 150:
Forms of murderer
| plural | murderers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | murtherer |
Origin of murderer
From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.
Words formed from murderer
- archmurderer
- axe murderer
- axe-murderer
- child murderer
- desk murderer
- mass murderer
- multimurderer
- murderers' row
- nonmurderer
- self-murderer
- serial murderer
Questions about murderer
- What does murderer mean?
- Murderer means a person who commits murder.
- What is murderer in Hindi?
- Murderer in Hindi is हत्यारा (hatyārā), ख़ूनी (xūnī), क़ातिल (qātil). See Murderer meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use murderer in a sentence?
- The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
- What part of speech is murderer?
- Murderer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce murderer?
- Murderer is pronounced /ˈmɜːdəɹə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of murderer?
- The plural of murderer is murderers.
Words near murderer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: murderer (page history and authors); murderer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); murderer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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