felon
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
felon (plural felons)
- A person who has committed a felony.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340 ↗:
- Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, James Nisbet & Company (1902), Book 3, Chapter 6, page 340 ↗:
- (legal) A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
- A wicked person.
- (one who has committed a felony) criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit
- German: Verbrecher, Schwerverbrecher
- Italian: criminale
- Russian: престу́пник
- Spanish: delincuente, criminal
felon
Nounfelon (plural felons)
- (medicine) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
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