Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who is holding a captive or captives.

    Entführer, Entführerin

  2. One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.

    Fänger, Fängerin

More definitions
  • a person who captures and holds people or animals

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom was kidnapped and held by his captors in an abandoned building on Park Street.

    ruТома похитили и удерживали в заброшенном здании на Парк-стрит.

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  2. Jonas got away from his captors.

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  3. Layla was at the mercy of her captors.

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  4. Our captors gave us clothes, food, books - the whole nine yards.

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  5. Siberians do not surrender to their captors, but they are not taken captive anyway.

    ruСибиряки в плен не сдаются, но и в плен не берут.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
one who is holding a captive:
one who has captured something or someone:

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.

Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.

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Forms

plural: captors
Singularcaptor
Pluralcaptors

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
one holding a captive:guardA2jailerkidnapper
one who catches someone or something:arresternabber
Close in meaning
  • a person who captures and holds people or animals:capturer

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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