Captor Definition

kăptər, -tôr
captors
noun
captors
A person who captures (someone or something) or holds captive.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Captor

Noun

Singular:
captor
Plural:
captors

Origin of Captor

  • Late Latin hunter from Latin capere to seize kap- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Late Latin, from the Latin capere. (English usage began around 1688).

    From Wiktionary

Captor Sentence Examples

  • Though treated with some deference by his captor, who even promised to reinstate him.

  • We were sealed from our captor!

  • A slave often ran away; if caught, the captor was bound to restore him to his master, and the Code fixes a reward of two shekels which the owner must pay the captor.

  • The finest parts of the epic are those in which Gudrun, a prisoner in the Norman castle, refuses to become the wife of her captor, and is condemned to do the most menial work of the household.

  • But if his captor held him fast the god at last returned to his proper shape, gave the wished-for answer, and then plunged into the sea.

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