Detective - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
Extra examples
We had to do some detective work to find out who used to own the property.
He enjoys reading detective novels.
She is a detective on the police force.
Detective Sgt. Lee is working on the case.
She hired a detective to follow her husband.
She hired a detective to find out if her husband was having an affair.
The detective asked me when I last saw her.
The detective Sherlock Holmes is not a real person.
Most of her books are conventional detective stories.
The detective overlooked an important clue.
...putting the handcuffs on the jewel thief, the detective asked him how he liked those bracelets...
His performance in the film was a caricature of a hard-boiled detective.
...the crime novel, written from the criminal's perspective, is sometimes seen as a particular species of the detective story genus...
...a puzzling detail that had been infixed in the detective's mind for over a decade...
Detective Grant is the most likeable character in the novel.
Word forms
singular: detective
plural: detectives
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