Assassin - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|əˈsæsn|
Brit.
|əˈsæsɪn|
noun
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed (syn: assassinator, bravo)
his assassins were hunted down like animals
assassinators of kings and emperors
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusadersassassinators of kings and emperors
Extra examples
John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
...shot down by an unknown assassin...
Kennedy's assassin is assumed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald.
He was killed by an assassin's bullet.
The letters of the royal assassin were exhumed.
The assassin's paymasters were never identified.
The assassin's bullet struck home (=hit exactly where it should).
Word forms
noun
singular: assassin
plural: assassins
singular: assassin
plural: assassins
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