See assassinee on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for assassinee meaning in All languages combined (6.7kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "assassinate",
"3": "ee",
"alt1": "assassin(ate)",
"pos2": "suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done"
},
"expansion": "assassin(ate) + -ee (suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From assassin(ate) + -ee (suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "assassinees",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "assassinee (plural assassinees)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"as‧sas‧sin‧ee"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ee",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Murder",
"orig": "en:Murder",
"parents": [
"Crime",
"Death",
"Violence",
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Body",
"Life",
"Human behaviour",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Nature",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1924 March, A[ubrey] Wyatt Tilby, “A Study in Life Values”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, volume XCV, number DLXV, London: Constable & Company […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 462",
"text": "In some ways I regret the failure to arrive at a definite conclusion, but it has provided me with an extremely interesting list of suicides and assassinees that includes such great names as Hannibal, [Julius] Cæsar, [Thomas] More, [Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of] Strafford, [Robert] Clive, [Maximilien] Robespierre and [Robert Stewart, Viscount] Castlereagh.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1941, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume 167, London: F. C. Westley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 228, column 1",
"text": "The general rule, I suppose, is that if the assassinee is deep enough sunk in turpitude the assassin may secure an honourable place in history.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1953, A[bbott] J[oseph] Liebling, “The Navasota Murder”, in The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, →OCLC; republished in Liebling at Home, New York, N.Y.: Wideview Books, 1982, page 311",
"text": "On entering the city room, I was met by the managing editor, who asked me if I knew that the assassinee’s brother-in-law owned the money behind the paper. The family had had the story jerked, and had managed to keep it out of every other paper in the city.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1958 October 24, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment, London: The Reprint Society, published 1960, →OCLC, part IV, section I, page 119",
"text": "\"Who was it?\" / \"They haven't caught him yet.\" / \"I mean the—the assassinee.\" / \"Nobody important. But he looked like the Minister. Where did you have supper?\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Robert George Cooper, Thailand beyond the Fringe, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, page 25",
"text": "On the even brighter side, if the rubbed-out would-be reader were a person of some note, the assassination might merit some free widespread publicity resulting in a rush to buy and read what was so thoughtfully tucked under the armpit of the assassinee at the moment the fatal bullet struck home.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who is assassinated."
],
"id": "en-assassinee-en-noun-qyGzNEVf",
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"assassinate",
"assassinate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonstandard, often humorous) One who is assassinated."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "assassinatee"
}
],
"tags": [
"humorous",
"nonstandard",
"often"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"word": "salamurhan uhri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "assassiné"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "assassinée"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úbien",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "у́биен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ubíena",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уби́ена"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mordoffer"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "llofruddiedig"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈsæsɪniː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˌsæsɪˈniː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈsæsəni/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˌsæsəˈni/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(one pronunciation) -iː"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-assassinee.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ae/En-us-assassinee.oga/En-us-assassinee.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/En-us-assassinee.oga"
}
],
"word": "assassinee"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "noun"
},
"expansion": "noun",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "assassinate",
"3": "ee",
"alt1": "assassin(ate)",
"pos2": "suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done"
},
"expansion": "assassin(ate) + -ee (suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From assassin(ate) + -ee (suffix forming nouns meaning people or things to whom or to which actions are done).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "assassinees",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "assassinee (plural assassinees)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"as‧sas‧sin‧ee"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 4-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English humorous terms",
"English lemmas",
"English nonstandard terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ee",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"Rhymes:English/iː",
"Rhymes:English/iː/4 syllables",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"en:Murder",
"en:People"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1924 March, A[ubrey] Wyatt Tilby, “A Study in Life Values”, in The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, volume XCV, number DLXV, London: Constable & Company […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 462",
"text": "In some ways I regret the failure to arrive at a definite conclusion, but it has provided me with an extremely interesting list of suicides and assassinees that includes such great names as Hannibal, [Julius] Cæsar, [Thomas] More, [Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of] Strafford, [Robert] Clive, [Maximilien] Robespierre and [Robert Stewart, Viscount] Castlereagh.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1941, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume 167, London: F. C. Westley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 228, column 1",
"text": "The general rule, I suppose, is that if the assassinee is deep enough sunk in turpitude the assassin may secure an honourable place in history.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1953, A[bbott] J[oseph] Liebling, “The Navasota Murder”, in The Honest Rainmaker: The Life and Times of Colonel John R. Stingo, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, →OCLC; republished in Liebling at Home, New York, N.Y.: Wideview Books, 1982, page 311",
"text": "On entering the city room, I was met by the managing editor, who asked me if I knew that the assassinee’s brother-in-law owned the money behind the paper. The family had had the story jerked, and had managed to keep it out of every other paper in the city.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1958 October 24, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment, London: The Reprint Society, published 1960, →OCLC, part IV, section I, page 119",
"text": "\"Who was it?\" / \"They haven't caught him yet.\" / \"I mean the—the assassinee.\" / \"Nobody important. But he looked like the Minister. Where did you have supper?\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Robert George Cooper, Thailand beyond the Fringe, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, page 25",
"text": "On the even brighter side, if the rubbed-out would-be reader were a person of some note, the assassination might merit some free widespread publicity resulting in a rush to buy and read what was so thoughtfully tucked under the armpit of the assassinee at the moment the fatal bullet struck home.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who is assassinated."
],
"links": [
[
"humorous",
"humorous"
],
[
"assassinate",
"assassinate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonstandard, often humorous) One who is assassinated."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "assassinatee"
}
],
"tags": [
"humorous",
"nonstandard",
"often"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈsæsɪniː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˌsæsɪˈniː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈsæsəni/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˌsæsəˈni/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(one pronunciation) -iː"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/43/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-assassinee.wav.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-assassinee.oga",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ae/En-us-assassinee.oga/En-us-assassinee.oga.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/En-us-assassinee.oga"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"word": "salamurhan uhri"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "assassiné"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "assassinée"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úbien",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "у́биен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ubíena",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уби́ена"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mordoffer"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(nonstandard, often humorous) one who is assassinated",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "llofruddiedig"
}
],
"word": "assassinee"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.