Thesaurus:executioner

Thesaurus

executioner

English

Noun

Sense: an official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal

Synonyms

• carnifex (historical)
• deathsman (obsolete)
• doomsman (rare)
• executioner
• executor (obsolete)
• halseman (obsolete)
• Jack Ketch
• lockman (Scotland, archaic)
• manqueller (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• derrick (obsolete)
• electrocutioner
• executioneress
• guillotiner
• guillotinist
• hangman
• headsman
• headswoman
• ketch

Hypernyms

• killer    [⇒ thesaurus]
• official    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• 165. “destroyer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• 361. “killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “executioner” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.