Noun: murderer mur-du-ru(r)
- A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
"the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair";
- liquidator, manslayer [archaic]
Derived forms: murderers
Type of: crim [Brit, informal], criminal, crook [informal], felon, killer, malefactor [formal], outlaw, slayer
Encyclopedia: Murderer, the Hope of Women