Usually means: Hired killers targeting specific individuals.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. assassins: Merriam-Webster
  2. assassins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assassins: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assassin's, Assassins, assassin's, assassins: Wordnik
  5. assassins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assassins: Wiktionary
  7. Assassins: Dictionary.com
  8. assassins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assassins (Desperate Housewives), Assassins (LaHaye novel), Assassins (film), Assassins (game), Assassins (musical), Assassins (novel), Assassins (sect), Assassins, The Assassins (film), The Assassins (professional wrestling), The Assassins (wrestling), The Assassins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. assassins: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. Assassins: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Assassins: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Assassins: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assassins: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assassins: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Assassins)

▸ noun:  a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr.
▸ noun:  Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist is the sixth book in the Left Behind series.
▸ noun:  a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner.
▸ noun:  a masked professional wrestling tag team from the 1960s to the 1980s.
▸ noun:  a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by Ryan White.


Opposite:
protectors, defenders, guardians, bodyguards

Types:
hired gun, hitman, mercenary, thug, murderer, more...

Phrases:
Order of Assassins, Wu Assassins, League of Assassins, Reign of Assassins, Assassins Pride, more...

Adjectives:
hired, political, professional, potential, unknown, cowardly, actual, real, young, alleged, secret



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Opposite:
protectors, defenders, guardians, bodyguards

Types:
hired gun, hitman, mercenary, thug, murderer, more...

Phrases:
Order of Assassins, Wu Assassins, League of Assassins, Reign of Assassins, Assassins Pride, Bodyguards and Assassins, Soul Assassins, Ruthless Rap Assassins, On the Trail of the Assassins, The Just Assassins, more...

Adjectives:
hired, political, professional, potential, unknown, cowardly, actual, real, young, alleged, secret




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