Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; an assassin; a destroyer of life.
Wiktionary
- n. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destroyer of life.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destroyer of life.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who causes the death of a person or animal
Etymologies
- From slay + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The first famous vampire slayer is of course, Van Helsing.”
“Pirate captain slayer crossdresses, lacks parrot, then hand.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Tales of the Slayer 2 - Vee Brown
“A happy slayer is a good slayer" becomes your motto”
“No psycho slayer is going to get between you and your right to life.”
“I am looking to put a string stop on my Martin slayer. check and make sure all your equipment is tight.”
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“The power you possess makes you a formidable slayer, that is true, but it also can make you the greatest of us all.”
Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
“It's called the slayer; that's how accurate it is.”
“He tried to console himself by thinking that Erckmann, perhaps, had failed to identify him, without realizing that his slayer was the shipmate of the summer ....”
“A son of a man who has been called a slayer has little right to love a woman, even if that woman has a bit of mystery about her.”
“He is known as the slayer of the dragon, the possessor of the Hort, and commander of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slayer’.
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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buffyisms.
World of Joss Whedon.
shindig, hootenanny, wanker, tosser, nancy-boy, peaches, brolly, bugger, mosey, slayer, doppelgänger, vampire and 3 more...
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josswords
A list based on words and ideas from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
laconic, sanguine, serenity, slayer, firefly, gorram, watcher, shiny, big bad, the black, browncoat, 'verse and 15 more...
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whedonesque
his. theirs. now all of ours.
shiny, nifty, slayer, buffybot, whatev, thewacky, shirty, hellmouth, watcher, kingarthured, notsomuch, dusted and 5 more...
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w h o' s
hysteria, hilarity, hollow, ocean, wired, wilted, winter, whisper, wanted, weave, wrong, silhouette and 28 more...
Tweets
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elfflame In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. - Opening to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dec 18, 2007