POLICE DETECTIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A police officer who investigates crimes

Synonyms:

detective; investigator; police detective; tec

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("police detective" is a kind of...):

officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)

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

dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw (someone who is a detective)

plainclothesman (a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty)

tracer (an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods)