Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oswald

1 sense of oswald

Sense 1
Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald -- (United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963))
       INSTANCE OF=> assassin, assassinator, bravo -- (a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors")