guillotine

common nounverb

Syllable Decomposition

guillotine

from the name of Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin who proposed that 'every condemned person will have their head cut off' before the Constituent Assembly in 1789.

Definitions

Synonyms

bois de justicegrande veuvebascule à Charlotmachine à Deiblermassicotveuverasoir nationalfenêtre nationale

Plural

guillotines

Translations

  • germangerman:Guillotine
  • englishenglish:guillotine
  • arabicarabic:مقصلة
  • chinesechinese:断头台
  • koreankorean:단두대
  • spanishspanish:guillotina
  • greekgreek:γκιλοτίνα
  • hebrewhebrew:גיליוטינה
  • italianitalian:ghigliottina
  • japanesejapanese:ギロチン
  • dutchdutch:guillotine
  • polishpolish:gilotyna
  • portugueseportuguese:guilhotina
  • russianrussian:гильотина
  • swedishswedish:fallbila
  • thaithai:กิโยติน
  • turkishturkish:giyotin
  • ukrainianukrainian:ґільйотина

See also

guillotineur (cn.) guillotinement (cn.) guillotinade (cn.) guillotine (v.) guillotinier (adj.) guillotiner (v.) guillotinage (cn.) guillotines (v.)