detective in English: A police officer, or another person, whose job is to find out who did a crime. (noun)

Translation

A police officer, or another person, whose job is to find out who did a crime.

Word origin

From Latin detegere, meaning to uncover, the same root as the English word detect.

Gender

Pluraldetectives

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"Detective" is the person whose job is to find out what happened.

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"Detectives" is the plural, so more than one.

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"Detective" here is a job.

police

The official group of people whose job is to stop crime and keep people safe.

cop

An informal word for a police officer.

question

A sentence or words you use when you want someone to give you an answer.

secret

Something you know but do not tell other people.

find

To see or get something you were looking for or did not expect.

inspector

A person whose job is to look at things carefully to check that they are safe or correct. It is also the name of a police rank.

mystery

Something strange that you cannot explain or understand.

investigation

The careful work of finding out the truth about something bad that has happened.

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