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Slaughters vs Butcher - What's the difference?

slaughters | butcher |

As verbs the difference between slaughters and butcher

is that slaughters is third-person singular of slaughter while butcher is to slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

As proper nouns the difference between slaughters and butcher

is that slaughters is the Cotswold villages of Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire, England, and the surrounding area while Butcher is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a butcher.

As a noun butcher is

a person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

slaughters

English

Verb

(head)
  • (slaughter)

    • slaughter

    English

    (wikipedia slaughter)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
  • A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
  • * Milton
    • on war and mutual slaughter bent
  • A rout or decisive defeat.

    • Derived terms

    * kosher slaughter * lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * manslaughter * ritual slaughter * slaughterer * slaughterhouse * slaughterman * slaughterous

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To butcher animals, generally for food
  • To massacre people in large numbers
  • To kill in a particularly brutal manner

    • Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs

    butcher

    English

    (wikipedia butcher)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • * 1900', , Chapter I,
    • He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
  • (by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Butcher of an innocent child.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
  • (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * * butcher's hook * pork butcher

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  • To kill brutally.
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
    • The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

    Synonyms

    * kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murder