EXECUTIONER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

Synonyms:

executioner; public executioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("executioner" is a kind of...):

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "executioner"):

electrocutioner (an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person)

hangman (an executioner who hangs the condemned person)

headman; headsman (an executioner who beheads the condemned person)

Derivation:

execution (putting a condemned person to death)