executor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=ec=u=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

executor, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. exécuteur. Cf. Executer.].

•  One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  An executioner.  [1913 Webster]

  "Delivering o'er to executors paw The lazy, yawning drone."  [1913 Webster]
•  The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.  [1913 Webster]

∥Executor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

executor, n. (fem. executrix) a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of his or her will.

Idiom

literary executor a person entrusted with a writer's papers, unpublished works, etc.

Derivative

executorial adj. executorship n. executory adj.

Etymology

ME f. AF executor, -our f. L executor -oris (as EXECUTE)

THESAURUS

executor

actor, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executant, executrix, fabricator, father, founder, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, mover, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, past master, performer, perpetrator, planner, practitioner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, subject, worker, wright

ROGET THESAURUS

executor

Agent

N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.