Skip to content
OneKitly

slayer

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsleɪə//

A killer; a murderer; someone who slays.

noun

  1. 1

    A killer; a murderer; someone who slays.

  2. 2

    A butcher.

Etymology

From Middle English slear, sleere, sleare, slaare, dissimilated from Old English slaga (“slayer”), equivalent to slay + -er.

Forms

plural
slayers
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).