"captor" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkæptɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-captor.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-captor.wav [US] Forms: captors [plural]
Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{bor|en|LL.|captor}} Late Latin captor, {{der|en|la|capiō}} Latin capiō Head templates: {{en-noun}} captor (plural captors)
  1. One who is holding a captive or captives. Categories (topical): People Synonyms (one holding a captive): guard, jailer, kidnapper Translations (one who is holding a captive): věznitel [masculine] (Czech), Entführer [masculine] (German), kaihopu (Maori), captor [masculine] (Portuguese), secuestrador [masculine] (Spanish), tillfångatagare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-captor-en-noun-hTTXLYzI Disambiguation of People: 69 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'one holding a captive': 86 14 Disambiguation of 'one who is holding a captive': 77 23
  2. One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone. Synonyms (one who catches someone or something): arrester, nabber Translations (one who has captured something or someone): Fänger [masculine] (German), fenġa [masculine] (Old English), captor [masculine] (Portuguese), captor [masculine] (Spanish), tillfångatagare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-captor-en-noun-TWelBWGJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'one who catches someone or something': 38 62 Disambiguation of 'one who has captured something or someone': 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: captour [obsolete, rare] Related terms: captee, captive, captivity

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