executioner

«executioner» in Mova's school dictionary: to put a criminal to death, as a punishment ordered by a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (plural executioners)

meaning for a pupil

A person whose job is to put a criminal to death, as a punishment ordered by a court. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, the man who carries out a death sentence, often feared and hooded; in some stories the executioner is tricked or sent away

examples

• The executioner raised his axe. tree →
• The king sent for the executioner. tree →
• In the story, the executioner refused to harm the boy. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• The executioner's argument: you can't cut off a head unless there is a body to cut it off from.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «executioner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.