He is a convicted arsonist.
Source: tatoeba (4288131)
Arsonist
//ˈɑɹsənəst//
Synonyms for "arsonist" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
Related word relations
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5 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
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6 entriesTranslations
82 translations across 46 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- brandstigter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Albanian
1 entries- zjarrvënës noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Asturian
2 entries- incendiaria noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiariu noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Belarusian
2 entries- падпа́льшчык noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- падпа́льшчыца noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Bulgarian
2 entries- подпалвач noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- подпалвачка noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Catalan
2 entries- incendiari noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiària noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 放火犯 noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- 縱火犯 /纵火犯 noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Czech
2 entries- žhář noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- žhářka noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Danish
2 entries- brandstifter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- ildspåsætter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Dutch
1 entries- brandstichter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Esperanto
1 entries- krimbruliganto noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Estonian
1 entries- süütaja noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Finnish
1 entries- tuhopolttaja noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
French
2 entries- incendiaire noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pyromane noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Galician
4 entries- incendiaria noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiario noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómana noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómano noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
German
2 entries- Brandstifter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- Brandstifterin noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Greek
1 entries- εμπρηστής noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyújtogató noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Indonesian
1 entries- pembakar noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Irish
1 entries- coirloisceoir noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Italian
2 entries- incendiario noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- piromane noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Japanese
2 entries- 放火犯 noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- 放火魔 noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Kazakh
4 entries- өрт жіберуші noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- өрт салушы noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- өрт қоюшы noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- өртеуші noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Korean
1 entries- 방화범 noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Latin
1 entries- incendiārius noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Latvian
2 entries- dedzinātāja noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- dedzinātājs noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Lithuanian
2 entries- padegė́ja noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- padegė́jas noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Brandstëfter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- Brandstëfterin noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Macedonian
1 entries- паликуќа noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- brannstifter noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- brannstiftar noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یانغینجی noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Brauntsata noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Polish
2 entries- podpalacz noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- podpalaczka noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Portuguese
4 entries- incendiária noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiário noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómana noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómano noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Romanian
2 entries- incendiatoare noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiator noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Russian
2 entries- поджига́тель noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- поджига́тельница noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- palikuća noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- potpaljivač noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- паликућа noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- потпаљивач noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Slovak
2 entries- podpaľač noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- podpaľačka noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Slovene
2 entries- požigálec noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- požigálka noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Spanish
4 entries- incendiaria noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- incendiario noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómana noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- pirómano noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Swedish
2 entries- mordbrännare noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- mordbrännerska noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Tagalog
1 entries- arsonista noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Tajik
1 entries- оташзананда noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Turkish
1 entries- kundakçı noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kẻ phóng hỏa noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
- kẻ đốt phá noun (one who has committed the act of arson)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
After a long investigation, the police finally captured the suspected arsonist.
Source: tatoeba (4586901)
The arsonist was never apprehended.
Source: tatoeba (5398359)
Layla was a dangerous arsonist.
Source: tatoeba (6043834)
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