noun
Meaning 1
Someone or something that exterminates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exterminator
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɪkˈstɝmɪˌneɪtɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɜːmɪˌneɪtə/
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noun
Meaning 2
Specifically, a person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: terminator, eradicator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: killer, slayer
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exterminātor. By surface analysis, exterminate + -or.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: exterminador — someone or something that exterminates
- French: exterminateur — someone or something that exterminates
- Latin: exterminātor — someone or something that exterminates
- Latin: exterminātrīx — someone or something that exterminates
- Macedonian: истребувач (istrebuvač) — someone or something that exterminates
- Spanish: exterminador — someone or something that exterminates
- Spanish: exterminadora — someone or something that exterminates
- Catalan: exterminador — person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building
- German: Kammerjäger — person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building
- German: Kammerjägerin — person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building
- Hebrew: מַדְבִּיר — person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building
- Japanese: 駆除業者 (kujo gyōsha) — person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building
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