Murderer Meaning
/ˈmɜːdəɹə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who commits murder.
Sentence Examples
The murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
We were filled with anger against the murderer.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police arrested the ____ who had left his gloves at the crime scene.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The jury eventually found the defendant guilty of being a ruthless ____, and he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; […]"
— 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 37:
"I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer."
— 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
"“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”"
— 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 150:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police arrested the ____ who had left his gloves at the crime scene.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The jury eventually found the defendant guilty of being a ruthless ____, and he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.