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Meaning of "felony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FELONY

felony  [ˈfɛlənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FELONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Felony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FELONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Felony

The term felony, in some common law countries, means a serious crime. The word originates from English common law, where felonies were originally crimes that involved confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods. Other crimes were called misdemeanours. Many common law countries have now abolished the felony/misdemeanour distinction and replaced it with other distinctions, such as between indictable offences and summary offences. A felony is generally considered a crime of high seriousness, while a misdemeanour is not. A person convicted in a court of law of a felony crime is known as a felon. In the United States, where the felony/misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. If punishable by exactly one year or less, it is classified as a misdemeanor. The individual states may differ in this definition, using other categories as seriousness or context. Similar to felonies in some civil law countries are delicts, whereas in others crimes and delicts.

Definition of felony in the English dictionary

The definition of felony in the dictionary is a serious crime, such as murder or arson. All distinctions between felony and misdemeanour were abolished in England and Wales in 1967.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FELONY


accompany
əˈkʌmpənɪ
Albany
ˈɔːlbənɪ
Anthony
ˈæntənɪ
Antony
ˈæntənɪ
balcony
ˈbælkənɪ
Bethany
ˈbɛθənɪ
Brittany
ˈbrɪtənɪ
ceremony
ˈsɛrɪmənɪ
colony
ˈkɒlənɪ
company
ˈkʌmpənɪ
ebony
ˈɛbənɪ
Germany
ˈdʒɜːmənɪ
harmony
ˈhɑːmənɪ
miscellany
mɪˈsɛlənɪ
semicolony
ˌsemɪˈkɒlənɪ
subcolony
ˈsʌbˌkɒlənɪ
symphony
ˈsɪmfənɪ
testimony
ˈtɛstɪmənɪ
tiffany
ˈtɪfənɪ
villainy
ˈvɪlənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FELONY

felo de se
felon
felones de se
felonies
felonious
feloniously
feloniousness
felonous
felonries
felonry
felos de se
felsic
felsite
felsitic
felspar
felspathic
felspathoid
felspathose
felstone
felt

WORDS THAT END LIKE FELONY

agony
bony
Cape Colony
charter colony
crown colony
irony
leper colony
matrimony
nudist colony
opening ceremony
penal colony
peony
phony
Plymouth Colony
polony
pony
proprietary colony
stony
telephony
tony

Synonyms and antonyms of felony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FELONY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «felony» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of felony

Translation of «felony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FELONY

Find out the translation of felony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of felony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «felony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重罪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

delito grave
570 millions of speakers

English

felony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुंडागर्दी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جناية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

преступление
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

crime
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গুরুতর অপরাধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crime
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejahatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwerverbrechen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

重罪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중죄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Felony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trọng tội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குற்றங்களின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गंभीर गुन्हा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

suç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

delitto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przestępstwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

злочин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crimă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακούργημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

misdadige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

brott
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forbrytelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of felony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FELONY»

The term «felony» is very widely used and occupies the 20.741 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FELONY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «felony» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «felony» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about felony

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10 QUOTES WITH «FELONY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word felony.
1
Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
2
Carl Bernstein
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
3
Pat Brown
Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
4
Vincent Bugliosi
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
5
Vincent Bugliosi
I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
6
Martin Van Buren
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
7
Stephanie Cutter
Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.
8
Peter Dinklage
Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.
9
Monica Raymund
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.
10
Slick Rick
You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FELONY»

Discover the use of felony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to felony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Felony: the private history of the Aspern papers : a novel
Felony is the story of the literary treachery that took place at no. 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879.
Emma Tennant, 2003
2
Felony Disenfranchisement in America: Historical Origins, ...
In this second edition of Felony Disenfranchisement in America, Katherine Irene Pettus draws on philosophy, history, law, and punishment theory to make the compelling argument that state disenfranchisement policies have collective moral and ...
Katherine Irene Pettus, 2013
3
Felony Murder
Despite this, the law persists in almost every U.S. jurisdiction. Felony Murder is the first book on this controversial legal doctrine.
Guyora Binder, 2012
4
Felony Probation: Problems and Prospects
This volume assesses the pros and cons of the growing use of felony probation as a rehabilitative tool and as a functional alternative to alleviate prison overcrowding, and examines the models that provide a framework for understanding this ...
Dean J. Champion, 1988
5
Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts: State ...
Between 1990 and 2004, 62% of felony defendants in State courts in the 75 largest counties were released prior to the disposition of their case.
Thomas H. Cohen, 2010
6
Felony Hex
But not until he gets what he wants in the here and now. He uses a spell to bend Esme to his will, make her crave his touch, his body. She'll do anything he asks-and Frost will do the same, because the spell works both ways.
Saranna DeWylde, 2012
7
The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England: Felony Before ...
This book represents the first full-length study of the English criminal trial in a crucial period of its development (1300-1550).
John G. Bellamy, 1998
8
A Felony of Birds
Native American Fish & Wildlife Investigator, Rhoda Deerwalker, finds more than she bargained for when a routine bird smuggling case turns deadly.
Harris Tobias, 2009
9
Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties (1992)
Arrest charges An estimated 55,513 felony cases were filed in the State courts of the Nation's 75 largest counties during May 1 992. About a fourth of these felony defendants were charged with a violent offense, usually assault (12.7%) or ...
Brian A. Reaues, Pheny Z. Smith, 1995
10
The Death Penalty: An American Citizen's Guide to ...
In order to rescue the defendant from the death penalty, the Supreme Court created an exception to the punishment component of the common law felony- murder rule. The Court held in Enmund that the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause ...
Louis J. Palmer, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FELONY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term felony is used in the context of the following news items.
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CMU football player accused in abduction attempt faces felony
MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — A now-former Central Michigan University football player faces two felonies in connection with accusations that he ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
2
Middletown fire captain indicted on felony charges
Greg Justice, a 25-year veteran of the department, has been indicted on felony charges by a Butler County grand jury, according to the county ... «Hamilton Journal News, Jul 15»
3
Sonoma Co. Man Pleads No Contest To Felony Animal Abuse
A Santa Rosa man who abandoned his injured dog in a ravine pleaded no contest Thursday to a felony charge of animal abuse, Sonoma ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
4
Felony DWI charge for accused repeat offender
QUEENSBURY — A Saratoga Springs man faces a felony DWI charge after an overnight traffic stop, according to the Warren County Sheriff's ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
5
Two arrested on felony drug charges
Johnson was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, and Santillana was charged with ... «The Saratogian, Jul 15»
6
March 2015 Stearns County felony sentencings
... Times graphic). CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. March 2015 felony sentencings from Stearns County District Court. «St. Cloud Times, Jul 15»
7
Euclid woman stopped, jailed on felony warrant: Pepper Pike police …
Warrant served, I-271: A Euclid woman, 43, was stopped about 7:45 a.m. on July 2 on the freeway after a registration check on her Chevy ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
8
Felony suspect at large in Portage County
TOWN OF BELMONT – A man wanted on a felony armed robbery warrant and a felony probation and parole warrant is on foot in southeastern ... «Stevenspointjournal, Jul 15»
9
Motorist taken into custody in Grundy County on felony OWI complaint
Isaac Bogard, 66, of Eldora, is facing third- or subsequent-offense operating while intoxicated, a felony. He was also arrested for allegedly ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»
10
Man Charged with Rape, Kidnapping Charges Faces New Felony
Jason Randolph, 36, is charged with felony intimidating a witness. Randolph was originally charged in April with one felony count each of rape ... «WLOS, Jul 15»

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