'Executor' definitions:
Definition of 'executor'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
Definition of 'Executor'
From: GCIDE
- Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. ex['e]cuteur. Cf. Executer.]
- 1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An executioner. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Delivering o'er to executors paw? The lazy, yawning drone. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'executor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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