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tyrannicides

tyrannicides is the plural of tyrannicide.

Meaning of tyrannicide

Noun (1)

tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)

  1. The killing of a tyrant.

Noun (2)

tyrannicide (plural tyrannicides)

  1. Someone who kills a tyrant.
    • Princip had even found time to learn by heart the entirety of The Mountain Wreath, Petrović-Njegos's stirring epic celebration of the selfless tyrannicide Miloš Obilić.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 51

Questions about tyrannicides

What is tyrannicides the plural of?
Tyrannicides is the plural of tyrannicide.

Words near tyrannicides in the dictionary

  1. tyrannical sadism
  2. tyrannically
  3. tyrannicalness
  4. tyrannicidal
  5. tyrannicide
  6. tyrannicides
  7. tyrannick
  8. tyrannid
  9. tyrannids
  10. tyrannie
  11. tyrannies

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