Arson

Definition: Arson

Arson

Noun

1. Malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising".

Date "arson" was first used: 1680. (references)

Etymology: Arson \Ar"son\ ([aum]r"s'n), noun. [Old French expression arson, arsun, from the Latin expression ardere, arsum, to burn.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Arson

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	Derived from the Hebrew. (See INSURANCE). Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Food & Agriculture	The criminal setting on fire of another's property or wilful burning of one's own belongings when insured. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Arson

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Arson is the crime of setting a fire with intent to cause damage. The definition of arson was originally limited to setting fire to buildings, but was later expanded to include other objects, such as bridges and vehicles.

Very often one distinguishes several degrees of arson, for example arson committed at night is usually viewed as being more serious than that committed during daytime. Setting fire to one's own property to defraud an insurance company is also a form of arson.

Wilful or negligent misconduct resulting in a forest fire, e.g., tossing a spent match or cigarette out of a vehicle in a closed area, is also subject to prosecution under many arson statutes.

see also: crime, law

Special Arson Reporting System

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arson."

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Synonyms: Arson

Synonyms: fire-raising (n), incendiarism (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Arson

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Calefaction	Ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration; deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis, incendiarism; arson; auto dafe.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Arson

English words defined with "arson": fire-raising ♦ incendiarism ♦ torch. (references)

Specialty definitions using "arson": BATTALION CHIEF, Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco And Firearms ♦ CAPTAIN, FIRE-PREVENTION BUREAU ♦ FIRE-INVESTIGATION LIEUTENANT. (references)

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Modern Usage: Arson

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Rape, murder, arson, and rape. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)
Clever	Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Arson for Hire (1959) Inc. Arson (1949) Arson Squad (1945)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Arson

Domain	Title
Books	21st Century Guide to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) includes Arson and Explosives, Bomb Threat and Detection, Bomb Task Force, Ballistics Technology to Solve Crimes, Commerce in Firearms, Brady Law, Gang Resistance Education and (reference) All Russia Is Burning: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia (reference) Arson : The Complete Investigator'S Manual (reference) Burn Baby Burn: A Superior Arson Mystery (reference) Heat: The Fire Investigators and Their War on Arson and Murder (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Target Arson (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Animal Bootcamp: The Adventures of Flower the Arson Dog (reference) Investigative Reports:War on Arson (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	15 Counts of Arson (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Arson

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Photo Album: Arson

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Arson

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The U.S. restrictions were levied in retaliation to the European ban on American beef. Since the imposition, McDonald's has been the focal point of these economic frustrations resulting in protests, acts of vandalism and, in France, cases of arson. (references)
Civil Liberties	Venezuela	On May 25, the printing press of La Opini�n newspaper in Cojedes state was destroyed by fire in an apparent arson. (references)
	Russia	On July 13, a fire, which some Jewish leaders suspected to be the result of arson, damaged the roof and upper floor of the school. (references)
	Antigua and Barbuda	At year's end, the police still had not issued an official report on their investigations into three possible arson attacks in 1998; no report is expected. (references)
Economic History	Bahrain	Political unrest broke out in December 1994 and included sporadic mass protests, skirmishes with local law enforcement, arson, and property attacks. (references)
	Nigeria	In late 2000 the Yoruba OPC instigated conflicts with the ethnic Hausa communities in Lagos state resulting in scores of deaths, arson, and days of rioting. (references)
Human Rights	France	In 1998 a court found him guilty of arson. (references)
Indigenous People	Bangladesh	Police arrested 6 tribals in connection with the murder of the truck driver, and 15 others for arson. (references)
Minorities	Russia	On August 16, in a widely publicized case, there was an arson attack on the Jewish synagogue in Ryazan. (references)
	Germany	On October 11, two young men of Arab origin were convicted of aggravated arson in association with the attack. (references)
Political Economy	Lesotho	The palace vigil and protests resulted in politically motivated killings, injuries, violence, arson, and destruction. (references)
	Bahrain	On the infrequent occasions when they have occurred, arson attacks have been on specific, mostly Bahraini-owned, enterprises. (references)
	Lesotho	The 1998 opposition protest and SADC intervention resulted in a wave of political violence and arson that destroyed nearly 80 percent of the commercial infrastructure in Maseru and other towns and villages. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Arson

"Arson" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.92% of the time. "Arson" is used about 292 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.92%	283	17,340
Noun (proper)	3.08%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	292	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Arson

Expressions using "arson": commit arson ♦ negligent arson. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "arson": arson-hit, arson-related.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Arson

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
arson	182	arson key pic	4
arson investigation	36	arson dedic mp3	3
emmanuelle arson	18	arson case court	3
arson investigator	18	arson fire investigation	3
arson key	15	arson fighter fire	3
arson john orr	12	arson juvenile	3
aggravated arson	8	arson murder	3
arson case	7	arson church	3
arson dog	7	arson crime	2
dj arson	6	il arson law	2
california arson	5	arson picture	2
action action activism activist against anarchist animal anti anti anti arson blockade bombing boycott change climate drug engineering espionage extremism extremist forestry fundamentalist genetic globalization globalization green hijack hostage human islamic left nuclear peace peace picket protest protest protest radical right right right sabotage separatist terrorism terrorist traffick war wing wing	5	arson stromberg tucker	2
fire arson	5	arson investigation training	2
abuse abused accuse accused accuses accusing arraigned arraigning arrest arrest arrested arson bankrupt bankruptcy burglar burglar burglary burglary charge charged civil conspiracy conspiracy conspire conspired conspires convict convict convicted conviction conviction counterfeit counterfeiting counterfeits crime crime criminal criminal defendant defendant defraud defrauded delist delisted embezzle embezzled embezzlement evasion exploit exploit exploitation exploited extorting extortion extortio	4	arson school	2
arson called thirty	4	arson photo	2
arson profit	4	arson audio	2
arson charge	4	arson furniture	2
arson dedic	4	arson canine ruffy	2
arson statistics	4	arson definition	2
arson level prison security	4	accused arson	2
		arson motive	2
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Modern Translation: Arson

Language		Translations for "arson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zjarrvënie e qëllimshme. (various references)

Arabic		‏إحراق الممتلكات عمدا. (various references)

Bulgarian		подпалвачество (incendiarism), палеж (fire raising, incendiarism). (various references)

Chinese		�"�火罪. (various references)

Czech		palièství, žhářství (incendiarism). (various references)

Danish		ildspåsættelse, brandstiftelse. (various references)

Dutch		opzettelijke brandstichting, moedwillige brandstichting, brandstichting (actionable fire). (various references)

Farsi		ایجادحریق عمدی , اتش زنی . (various references)

Finnish		murhapoltto. (various references)

French		incendie volontaire. (various references)

German		Brandstiftung (fire raising, incendiary). (various references)

Greek		εμπρησμός (actionable fire). (various references)

Hungarian		gyújtogatás (fire raising, fire-raising, incendiarism, pyromania). (various references)

Italian		incendio doloso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		火付け (incendiary), 火付 (incendiary), �"�火罪 , �"�火 (set fire to), 不審火 (fire under suspicious circumstances). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひつけ (incendiary), ふし�"び (fire under suspicious circumstances), ほうかざい, ほうか (beacon, fire, gunfire, Japanese money, law department or law school, legal currency, loud singing, one's country, rocket, set fire to, signal fire). (various references)

Manx		losteyrys, losteyrid, lostey joinagh (incendiarism), foaddey (burn, burn up, burning, ignite, ignition, incendiarism, kindle, light, set on fire, switch on). (various references)

Norwegian		brannstiftelse. (various references)

Pig Latin		arsonay

Portuguese		incêndio culposo, fogo posto (felony), crime de incêndio doloso. (various references)

Romanian		incendiu (conflagration, fire), incendiere, foc (affliction, Ardor, ardour, blaze, bonfire, brunt, conflagration, discharge, fire, firing, glow, grief, heat, ingle, jib, light, round, shot, spirit). (various references)

Russian		поджог (fire raising, incendiarism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		podmetanje požara, palež, namerna paljevina. (various references)

Spanish		incendio provocado. (various references)

Swedish		mordbrand (fire raising, incendiarism). (various references)

Thai		การลอบวางเพลิง. (various references)

Turkish		kundakçılık (incendiarism), kasıtlı yangın çıkarma. (various references)

Ukrainian		підпал (incendiarism). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự cố ý gây nên hoả hoạn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Arson

Language	Period	Translations
Late Latin	300-700	arsionem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Arson

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arson": arsonist, arsonists, arsonous, arsons. (additional references)
	Words ending with "arson": parson. (additional references)
	Words containing "arson": parsonage, parsonages, parsonic, parsons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Arson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abreskov, Adson, aeson, airon, Aksoy, Amson, aornos, Arason, arcon, Ardon, arison, Arlon, Arnon, aron, aroon, aros, arosen, arron, arrons, Arsen, arsey, arso, artsen, aryon, arzo, Arzu, Ascon, asone, asong, Asroc, asrog, Asscn, asson, Ausona, Ausone, Avrion, avron, Ayrhoh, ayson, Ersoz, farsan, garson, Harson, Karslon, Marsdon, Rabson, rasion, raso, ratson, Razno, razon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Arson"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "arson" (pronounced Ä"rsun)
5	Ä" r s u n	parson.
3	-s u n	aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, claxon, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, fasten, garrison, Gibson, glisten, hasten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen.
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Anagrams: Arson

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: roans, sonar.
	Words within the letters "a-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: naos, oars, osar, roan, soar, sora, sorn.
	-2 letters: ars, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, ran, ras, son.
	-3 letters: an, ar, as, na, no, on, or, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: acorns, adorns, aprons, argons, arseno, arsino, arsons, barons, groans, lorans, manors, narcos, norias, orangs, organs, parson, racons, radons, ramson, ransom, rayons, reason, romans, rowans, sarong, senora, shoran, sonars, sovran, tronas.
	+2 letters: anchors, angoras, anoraks, anurous, archons, arenose, arenous, aroints, aroynts, atoners, attorns, barongs, baryons, boranes, brogans, candors, cantors, carbons, cartons, coarsen, contras, corbans, corneas, coronas, cratons, crayons, dragons, enamors, erasion, garcons, garrons, hadrons, hoarsen, inroads, insofar, jargons, jordans, korunas, ladrons, lardons, loaners, macrons, maroons, marrons, masonry, matrons, moaners, morgans, narcose, narrows, natrons, nonarts, nonwars, normals, oarsman, oarsmen, onagers, onwards, oranges, ordains, origans, orphans, ourangs, pardons, parsons, partons, patrons, pawnors, persona, prolans, racoons, ramsons, ranchos, rancors, randoms, ransoms, rations, ratoons, rattons, reasons, reloans, robands, rodsman, romanos, ryokans, sadiron, saffron, santour, sarongs, saxhorn, senator, senhora, senoras, serrano, shorans, signora, soaring, soprani, soprano, sovrans, sporran, tarpons, transom, treason, uranous, warison.
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