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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the killing of a human being by another human being;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Homicide \Hom"i*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.] 1. The killing of one human being by another. [1913 Webster] Note: Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster] 2. One who kills another; a manslayer. --Chaucer. Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "homicide": Cain, aborticide, apache, assassin, assassination, assassinator, blood, bloodletter, bloodshedder, bloody murder, bravo, bumping-off, burker, butcher, button man, cannibal, cutthroat, desperado, elimination, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, foul play, fratricide, fungicide, garroter, genocide, germicide, gorilla, gun, gunman, gunsel, hatchet man, head-hunter, herbicide, hit man, homicidal maniac, infanticide, insecticide, killer, killing, liquidation, man-eater, man-killer, manslaughter, manslayer, massacrer, matador, matricide, microbicide, murder, murderer, parricide, patricide, pesticide, poison, poisoner, purge, purging, regicide, removal, rodenticide, slaughterer, slayer, sororicide, strangler, suicide, thug, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, torpedo, trigger man, uxoricide, vermicide