The murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Source: tatoeba (2009)
Murderer
//ˈmɜːdəɹə//
Synonyms for "murderer" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
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More general
7 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
1 entriescapable of
6 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
11 entriesderived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesis a
4 entriesreceives action
2 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
189 translations across 105 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- moordenaar noun (person who commits murder)
Alabama
1 entries- aatiibi noun (person who commits murder)
Albanian
2 entries- vrasës noun (person who commits murder)
- vrasëse noun (person who commits murder)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- φονεύς noun (person who commits murder)
- φονεύτρια noun (person who commits murder)
Arabic
2 entries- قَاتِل noun (person who commits murder)
- قَاتِلَة noun (person who commits murder)
Armenian
1 entries- մարդասպան noun (person who commits murder)
Asturian
1 entries- asesín noun (person who commits murder)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qatil noun (person who commits murder)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡатил noun (person who commits murder)
Belarusian
1 entries- забо́йца noun (person who commits murder)
Bengali
2 entries- কাতেল noun (person who commits murder)
- খুনী noun (person who commits murder)
Breton
1 entries- lazher noun (person who commits murder)
Bulgarian
2 entries- уби́ец noun (person who commits murder)
- уби́йца noun (person who commits murder)
Burmese
1 entries- လူသတ်သမား noun (person who commits murder)
Catalan
2 entries- assassina noun (person who commits murder)
- assassí noun (person who commits murder)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏓᎯᎯ noun (person who commits murder)
Chickasaw
1 entries- hattak-abi' noun (person who commits murder)
Chinese
1 entries- 殺手 /杀手 noun (person who commits murder)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 兇手 /凶手 noun (person who commits murder)
- 殺人犯 /杀人犯 noun (person who commits murder)
- 殺手 /杀手 noun (person who commits murder)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 兇手 /凶手 noun (person who commits murder)
- 殺人犯 /杀人犯 noun (person who commits murder)
- 殺手 /杀手 noun (person who commits murder)
Choctaw
1 entries- abi noun (person who commits murder)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qatil noun (person who commits murder)
Czech
2 entries- vrah noun (person who commits murder)
- vražedkyně noun (person who commits murder)
Danish
2 entries- morder noun (person who commits murder)
- morderske noun (person who commits murder)
Dutch
3 entries- moordenaar noun (person who commits murder)
- moordenaarster noun (person who commits murder)
- moordenares noun (person who commits murder)
Esperanto
3 entries- murdintino noun (person who commits murder)
- murdinto noun (person who commits murder)
- murdisto noun (person who commits murder)
Estonian
1 entries- mõrtsukas noun (person who commits murder)
Finnish
1 entries- murhaaja noun (person who commits murder)
French
4 entries- assassin noun (person who commits murder)
- assassine noun (person who commits murder)
- meurtrier noun (person who commits murder)
- meurtrière noun (person who commits murder)
Galician
2 entries- asasina noun (person who commits murder)
- asasino noun (person who commits murder)
Georgian
1 entries- მკვლელი noun (person who commits murder)
German
2 entries- Mörder noun (person who commits murder)
- Mörderin noun (person who commits murder)
Greek
4 entries- δολοφόνισσα noun (person who commits murder)
- δολοφόνος noun (person who commits murder)
- φονιάς noun (person who commits murder)
- φόνισσα noun (person who commits murder)
Gujarati
1 entries- હત્યારો noun (person who commits murder)
Hebrew
2 entries- רוצח \ רוֹצֵחַ noun (person who commits murder)
- רוצחת \ רוֹצַחַת noun (person who commits murder)
Hindi
3 entries- क़ातिल noun (person who commits murder)
- ख़ूनी noun (person who commits murder)
- हत्यारा noun (person who commits murder)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyilkos noun (person who commits murder)
Icelandic
1 entries- morðingi noun (person who commits murder)
Indonesian
1 entries- pembunuh noun (person who commits murder)
Ingrian
2 entries- murhamees noun (person who commits murder)
- päänikka noun (person who commits murder)
Italian
2 entries- assassina noun (person who commits murder)
- assassino noun (person who commits murder)
Japanese
2 entries- 人殺し noun (person who commits murder)
- 殺人者 noun (person who commits murder)
Kalmyk
1 entries- алач noun (person who commits murder)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕೊಲೆಗಾರ noun (person who commits murder)
Kazakh
2 entries- қаныпезер noun (person who commits murder)
- қанішер noun (person who commits murder)
Khmer
2 entries- ឃាតករ noun (person who commits murder)
- អ្នកសម្លាប់ noun (person who commits murder)
Korean
1 entries- 살인자 noun (person who commits murder)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- өлтүргүч noun (person who commits murder)
- өлтүрүүчү noun (person who commits murder)
Lao
1 entries- ຄາດຕະກອນ noun (person who commits murder)
Latgalian
1 entries- slapkauņs noun (person who commits murder)
Latin
4 entries- homicīda noun (person who commits murder)
- interfector noun (person who commits murder)
- interfectrīx noun (person who commits murder)
- occīsor noun (person who commits murder)
Latvian
1 entries- slepkava noun (person who commits murder)
Lithuanian
2 entries- žmogžudys noun (person who commits murder)
- žmogžudė noun (person who commits murder)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Mäerder noun (person who commits murder)
- Mäerderin noun (person who commits murder)
Macedonian
2 entries- катиљ noun (person who commits murder)
- убиец noun (person who commits murder)
Malay
1 entries- pembunuh noun (person who commits murder)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൊലപാതകി noun (person who commits murder)
Marathi
1 entries- खुनी noun (person who commits murder)
Mongolian
1 entries- алуурчин noun (person who commits murder)
Māori
1 entries- kaikōhuru noun (person who commits murder)
Norman
1 entries- meurtriyi noun (person who commits murder)
Northern Altai
1 entries- ӧлтречи noun (person who commits murder)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- kujer noun (person who commits murder)
- mêrkuj noun (person who commits murder)
- qatil noun (person who commits murder)
Northern Sami
1 entries- olmmošgoddi noun (person who commits murder)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- drapskvinne noun (person who commits murder)
- drapsmann noun (person who commits murder)
- drapsperson noun (person who commits murder)
- morder noun (person who commits murder)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- drapskvinne noun (person who commits murder)
- drapsmann noun (person who commits murder)
- drapsperson noun (person who commits murder)
- mordar noun (person who commits murder)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- головьникъ noun (person who commits murder)
Old English
2 entries- manslaga noun (person who commits murder)
- slaga noun (person who commits murder)
Old French
1 entries- murtrier noun (person who commits murder)
Old Norse
1 entries- morðari noun (person who commits murder)
Old Polish
1 entries- głównik noun (person who commits murder)
Pashto
2 entries- خوني noun (person who commits murder)
- قاتل noun (person who commits murder)
Persian
2 entries- آدمکش noun (person who commits murder)
- قاتل noun (person who commits murder)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Merda noun (person who commits murder)
Polish
4 entries- morderca noun (person who commits murder)
- morderczyni noun (person who commits murder)
- zabójca noun (person who commits murder)
- zabójczyni noun (person who commits murder)
Portuguese
3 entries- assassina noun (person who commits murder)
- assassino noun (person who commits murder)
- homicida noun (person who commits murder)
Romanian
2 entries- criminal noun (person who commits murder)
- criminală noun (person who commits murder)
Russian
3 entries- душегу́б noun (person who commits murder)
- ки́ллер noun (person who commits murder)
- уби́йца noun (person who commits murder)
Sanskrit
2 entries- घातक noun (person who commits murder)
- ताडक noun (person who commits murder)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- murtair noun (person who commits murder)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ùbica noun (person who commits murder)
- ùbojica noun (person who commits murder)
- у̀бица noun (person who commits murder)
- у̀бојица noun (person who commits murder)
Sinhalese
1 entries- මිනීමරුවා noun (person who commits murder)
Slovak
2 entries- vrah noun (person who commits murder)
- vrahyňa noun (person who commits murder)
Slovene
2 entries- morilec noun (person who commits murder)
- morilka noun (person who commits murder)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ӧлтӱречи noun (person who commits murder)
Spanish
4 entries- asesina noun (person who commits murder)
- asesino noun (person who commits murder)
- homicida noun (person who commits murder)
- matador noun (person who commits murder)
Swahili
1 entries- mwuaji noun (person who commits murder)
Swedish
2 entries- mördare noun (person who commits murder)
- mörderska noun (person who commits murder)
Tajik
3 entries- кушанда noun (person who commits murder)
- одамкуш noun (person who commits murder)
- қотил noun (person who commits murder)
Tamil
1 entries- கொலைகாரன் noun (person who commits murder)
Tatar
2 entries- катыйль noun (person who commits murder)
- үтерүче noun (person who commits murder)
Telugu
1 entries- హంతకుడు noun (person who commits murder)
Thai
1 entries- ฆาตกร noun (person who commits murder)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kauṣenta noun (person who commits murder)
Turkish
1 entries- katil noun (person who commits murder)
Turkmen
1 entries- ganhor noun (person who commits murder)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вби́вця noun (person who commits murder)
- душогу́б noun (person who commits murder)
- уби́вця noun (person who commits murder)
Urdu
2 entries- خونی noun (person who commits murder)
- قاتل noun (person who commits murder)
Uyghur
2 entries- شۇمبەن noun (person who commits murder)
- قاتىل noun (person who commits murder)
Uzbek
2 entries- odamkush noun (person who commits murder)
- qotil noun (person who commits murder)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kẻ giết người noun (person who commits murder)
Wiradjuri
1 entries- baluubuunildaayn noun (person who commits murder)
Yakut
1 entries- өлөрүөхсүт noun (person who commits murder)
Yiddish
3 entries- טויטשלאַגער noun (person who commits murder)
- מערדער noun (person who commits murder)
- רוצח noun (person who commits murder)
Zulu
1 entries- umbulali noun (person who commits murder)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Even though he had served his time in prison, the murderer was never quite condoned by the public for his crime.
Source: tatoeba (2014)
We were filled with anger against the murderer.
Source: tatoeba (22958)
Even now, we still doubt that he is the real murderer.
Source: tatoeba (22979)
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