conspirator
pronunciation
How to pronounce conspirator in British English:
UK [kənˈspɪrətə(r)]
How to pronounce conspirator in American English:
US [kənˈspɪrətɚ]
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- Noun:
- a member of a conspiracy
Word Origin
- conspirator (n.)
- c. 1400, conspyratour, from Old French conspirateur, from Latin conspiratorem (nominative conspiratorio), noun of action from conspirat-, past participle stem of conspirare (see conspire). Fem. form conspiratress is from mid-18c. Related: Conspiratorial; conspiratorially; conspiratory.
Example
- 1. Kim tells nina that rick wasn 't really a conspirator in the kidnapping .
- 2. Even were such a plot hatched , india would be a reluctant conspirator .
- 3. If he was a conspirator it seemed inconceivable that he would have done so .
- 4. But as written , the character seems too level-headed to be a conspirator to such a crime .
- 5. George crowninshield , the remaining conspirator , had spent the night of the murder with two ladies of the evening , who provided him with an alibi . After two trials he was acquitted by a now-exhausted court .