terminator

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

Etymology

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or. * (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

In classic literature

Synonyms

exterminator, eradicator

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