Assassin | Mean of assassin in English Dictionary
/əˈsæsn̩/
- Noun
- a person who kills someone (such as a famous or important person) usually for political reasons or for money
- He's a hired assassin. [=someone hired to kill someone]
- the President's would-be assassin [=the person who tried to kill the President]
- John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
