Associations to the word «Homicide»

Wiktionary

HOMICIDE, noun. (uncountable) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
HOMICIDE, noun. (countable) A person who kills another.
HOMICIDE, noun. (countable) (US) (police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.

Dictionary definition

HOMICIDE, noun. The killing of a human being by another human being.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope