assassin
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
his assassins were hunted down like animals
Types & categories
- liquidator hypernym
- John Wilkes Booth instance hyponym
- Oswald instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- assassinate derivation
- political science domain topic
Sense 2 noun
a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
Types & categories
- Muslim hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | assassinate |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | political science |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | liquidator |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | John Wilkes Booth |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Oswald |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | Muslim |