"carnager" meaning in English

See carnager in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: carnagers [plural]
Etymology: From carnage + -er. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|carnage|er}} carnage + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} carnager (plural carnagers)
  1. (dated, obsolete) Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”). Tags: dated, obsolete Synonyms: butcher [synonym, synonym-of]

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "carnage",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "carnage + -er",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From carnage + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carnagers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "carnager (plural carnagers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              89,
              97
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1862, George Henry Borrow, Wild Wales, Its People, Language and Scenery: in Three Volumes · Volume 3, page 99:",
          "text": "May God and Rome's blest father high / Deck him in surest panoply! / Hail to the valiant carnager, / Worthy three diadems to bear!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-carnager-en-noun-3kU9ddzr",
      "links": [
        [
          "butcher",
          "butcher#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, obsolete) Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "a brutal or indiscriminate killer",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "butcher"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnager"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "carnage",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "carnage + -er",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From carnage + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carnagers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "carnager (plural carnagers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              89,
              97
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1862, George Henry Borrow, Wild Wales, Its People, Language and Scenery: in Three Volumes · Volume 3, page 99:",
          "text": "May God and Rome's blest father high / Deck him in surest panoply! / Hail to the valiant carnager, / Worthy three diadems to bear!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "butcher",
          "butcher#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, obsolete) Synonym of butcher (“a brutal or indiscriminate killer”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "a brutal or indiscriminate killer",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "butcher"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnager"
}

Download raw JSONL data for carnager meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). 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.