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usurpers

usurpers is the plural of usurper.

Meaning of usurper

Noun

usurper (plural usurpers)

  1. One who usurps.
    • The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one...2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
    Synonyms:
    usurpator

Questions about usurpers

What is usurpers the plural of?
Usurpers is the plural of usurper.

Words near usurpers in the dictionary

  1. usurpature
  2. usurpatures
  3. usurped
  4. usurpedly
  5. usurper
  6. usurpers
  7. usurpership
  8. usurpeth
  9. usurping
  10. usurpingly
  11. usurpings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: usurpers (page history and authors); usurper (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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