Associations to the word «Executioner»

Wiktionary

EXECUTIONER, noun. An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
EXECUTIONER, noun. (archaic) executor
EXECUTIONER, noun. A hit man, especially being in a some organization.

Dictionary definition

EXECUTIONER, noun. An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope