Dictionary

conspirator en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kənˈspɪɹətə/ (UK)
• /kənˈspɪɹətɚ/ (US)
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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman conspiratour.

Meanings

1. One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.
   • All the Jacobite gentry of that part of the country were collected together; though, it must be confessed, their appearance and their usual after-dinner conversation were rather at variance. Now they looked calm and comfortable, with as little the appearance of conspirators as possible; then they were (by their own account) the most oppressed of individuals, and the most devoted of partisans, ready to die, so that their wrongs were redressed, and the rightful king restored. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119:
   • The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested.

Forms

Deriveds

conspiratorship · conspiratress · co-conspirator · archconspirator · nonconspirator

Relateds

conspirer

Translations (55)

id komplotan (person who is part of a conspiracy) · xcl դաշնակից (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ga cogarnach (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ca conspirador (person who is part of a conspiracy) · id konspirator (person who is part of a conspiracy) · pl konspirator (person who is part of a conspiracy) · it cospiratore (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ru конспира́тор (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ru загово́рщица (person who is part of a conspiracy) · cy cynllwynwr (person who is part of a conspiracy) · pt conspirador (person who is part of a conspiracy) · cs spiklenec (person who is part of a conspiracy) · it cospiratrice (person who is part of a conspiracy) · it congiurato (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sh zaverenik (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sh ùrotnīk (person who is part of a conspiracy) · gl conspirador (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ru загово́рщик (person who is part of a conspiracy) · eo komplotanto (person who is part of a conspiracy) · am አድመኛ (person who is part of a conspiracy) · pt conspiradora (person who is part of a conspiracy) · nl samenzweerder (person who is part of a conspiracy) · mi kaikakai (person who is part of a conspiracy) · de Verschwörerin (person who is part of a conspiracy) · it complottardo (person who is part of a conspiracy) · nrf complioteux (person who is part of a conspiracy) · mk заговорник (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ky кутумчу (person who is part of a conspiracy) · fr conspirateur (person who is part of a conspiracy) · de Verschwörer (person who is part of a conspiracy) · fr conspiratrice (person who is part of a conspiracy) · es conspiradora (person who is part of a conspiracy) · cmn 同謀 /同谋 (person who is part of a conspiracy) · pl spiskowiec (person who is part of a conspiracy) · es conspirador (person who is part of a conspiracy) · tr casus (person who is part of a conspiracy) · hi षड्यंत्रकारी (person who is part of a conspiracy) · gv cochialgeyr (person who is part of a conspiracy) · fi salaliittolainen (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sh zavjerènica (person who is part of a conspiracy) · hu konspirátor (person who is part of a conspiracy) · nn konspiratør (person who is part of a conspiracy) · uk змо́вниця (person who is part of a conspiracy) · nb konspiratør (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sv sammansvuren (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sh zavjerènīk (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sv konspiratör (person who is part of a conspiracy) · pl konspiratorka (person who is part of a conspiracy) · sh ùrotnica (person who is part of a conspiracy) · ga comhchealgaire (person who is part of a conspiracy) · gl conspiradora (person who is part of a conspiracy) · uk змо́вник (person who is part of a conspiracy) · it congiurata (person who is part of a conspiracy) · tr komplocu (person who is part of a conspiracy) · hu összesküvő (person who is part of a conspiracy)