assassin
英 [?'s?s?n]
美[?'s?sn]
- n. 刺客，暗殺者
英英釋意
- 1. a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed;
- "his assassins were hunted down like animals"
- "assassinators of kings and emperors"
- 2. a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terroriszed and killed Christian Crusaders