noun
Meaning 1
Someone who blackmails.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
blackmailer
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noun
Meaning 2
a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
History
Etymology
From blackmail + -er.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շանտաժիստ (šantažist) — someone who blackmails
- Belarusian: шантажы́ст (šantažýst) — someone who blackmails
- Belarusian: шантажы́стка (šantažýstka) — someone who blackmails
- Belarusian: вымага́льнік (vymahálʹnik) — someone who blackmails
- Belarusian: вымага́льніца (vymahálʹnica) — someone who blackmails
- Belarusian: здзі́рца (zdzírca) — someone who blackmails
- Bulgarian: изнудва́ч (iznudváč) — someone who blackmails
- Bulgarian: изнудва́чка (iznudváčka) — someone who blackmails
- Catalan: xantatgista — someone who blackmails
- Chinese Mandarin: 敲詐者 /敲诈者 (qiāozhàzhě) — someone who blackmails
- Chinese Mandarin: 勒索者 (lèsuǒzhě) — someone who blackmails
- Czech: vyděrač — someone who blackmails
- Czech: vyděračka — someone who blackmails
- Danish: afpresser — someone who blackmails
- Danish: pengeafpresser — someone who blackmails
- Dutch: chanteur — someone who blackmails
- Dutch: afperser — someone who blackmails
- Estonian: šantažeerija — someone who blackmails
- Estonian: väljapressija — someone who blackmails
- Finnish: kiristäjä — someone who blackmails
- French: maître-chanteur — someone who blackmails
- French: maître-chanteuse — someone who blackmails
- Galician: chantaxista — someone who blackmails
- Georgian: შანტაჟისტი (šanṭažisṭi) — someone who blackmails
- German: Erpresser — someone who blackmails
- German: Erpresserin — someone who blackmails
- Hungarian: zsaroló — someone who blackmails
- Italian: ricattatore — someone who blackmails
- Italian: ricattatrice — someone who blackmails
- Japanese: 恐喝者 (kyōkatsusha) — someone who blackmails
- Korean: 공갈범 (gonggalbeom) — someone who blackmails
- Macedonian: уценувач (ucenuvač) — someone who blackmails
- Macedonian: уценувачка (ucenuvačka) — someone who blackmails
- Polish: szantażysta — someone who blackmails
- Polish: szantażystka — someone who blackmails
- Portuguese: chantagista — someone who blackmails
- Russian: шантажи́ст (šantažíst) — someone who blackmails
- Russian: шантажи́стка (šantažístka) — someone who blackmails
- Russian: вымога́тель (vymogátelʹ) — someone who blackmails
- Russian: вымога́тельница (vymogátelʹnica) — someone who blackmails
- Slovak: vydierač — someone who blackmails
- Slovak: vydieračka — someone who blackmails
- Slovene: izsiljevalec — someone who blackmails
- Slovene: izsiljevalka — someone who blackmails
- Spanish: chantajista — someone who blackmails
- Swedish: utpressare — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: шантажи́ст (šantažýst) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: шантажи́стка (šantažýstka) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: вимага́ч (vymaháč) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: вимага́чка (vymaháčka) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: зди́рця (zdýrcja) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: зди́рник (zdýrnyk) — someone who blackmails
- Ukrainian: зди́рниця (zdýrnycja) — someone who blackmails