Accomplice

Definition: Accomplice

Accomplice

Noun

1. A person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan).

Date "accomplice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Accomplice \Ac*com"plice\, noun. [Ac- (perh. for the article or for Latin ad) English complice. See Complice.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Accomplice

Synonym: confederate (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Auxiliary	Confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the fact; particeps criminis; socius criminis.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Accomplice

English words defined with "accomplice": Accompliceship, Accomplicity ♦ Complice, complicity ♦ Federary, Feodary ♦ Knights companions ♦ Louk ♦ mind reader ♦ telepathist, thought-reader. (references)

Specialty definitions using "accomplice": Apothecary ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Glossin ♦ Robert Macaire, RUNNING SMOBBLE. (references)

Etymologies containing "accomplice": Accompliceship ♦ Complice. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Is that your definition of a good man?. You must trust your initial impulse and consider leaving him. You'll never be able to feel good about yourself. You'll never be able to quell the feelings of guilt and shame that you talked about, so long as you're his accomplice. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ram�n De Espa�a) And I guess that was your accomplice in the woodchipper. (Fargo; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen) You discharged her, so she and her accomplice came here to kill you. Then they set fire to the office, to conceal the crime but they were trapped in the elevator and perished in the flames. (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)
Movie/TV Titles	Accomplice (1946) The Accomplice (1917)
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Domain	Title
Books	Accomplice in Treason: Joshua Hett Smith and the Arnold Conspiracy (reference) Accomplice of Love (reference) Superglasses: The Use of Accomplice Evidence in Northern England (reference) The Accomplice (reference) The Case of the Nervous Accomplice [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Accomplice (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He was to be tried in a few days, at Aix, with his accomplice, and his conviction was certain.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Cambodia	The investigation of some cases proceeded very slowly, and, in one case, the authorities did not question a village chief who had advance knowledge of plans to kill the victim but failed to report or act to prevent it. In October a provincial court convicted the confessed killer and an accomplice in the June murder of SRP activist Uch Horn, sentencing them to 15 and 14 years in prison respectively. (references)
Travel	Switzerland	A typical scam used against businessmen is for a thief to grab an attache case in a hotel or airport while an accomplice distracts the victim. (references)
Women	Afghanistan	In 2000 at least one accused adulteress was sentenced to 100 lashes; a female accomplice was sentenced to 30 lashes. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider. When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary's health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim: "My deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!" G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Accomplice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.20% of the time. "Accomplice" is used about 184 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)	96.2%	177	23,322
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.72%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	1.09%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	184	N/A

Expressions using "accomplice": be accomplice in a plot ♦ be an accomplice in. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "accomplice": reader-accomplice.
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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.

Language		Translations for "accomplice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		handlanger (abetter, abettor, accessory). (various references)

Albanian		bashkëfajtor (abettor, accessory). (various references)

Arabic		‏مساعد (accessory, advantageous, aid, ancillary, assistance, auxiliary, backing, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏شريك في جريمة. (various references)

Chinese		同謀 (conspirator, partner in crime, to conspire with someone, to plot), 同犯, 幫凶 (accessory). (various references)

Czech		spoluviník (accessary, accessory, confederate), spolupachatel. (various references)

Dutch		medeplichtige (abetter, abettor, accessory, accessory after the fact), mededader (abetter, abettor, accessory). (various references)

Esperanto		kunkulpulo (abetter, accessory), komplico (abetter, accessory). (various references)

Farsi		همدست (Aid, Associate, Complier, Cooperator, Pal, Partner), شریک یامعاون جرم . (various references)

Finnish		avunantaja (accessory after the fact). (various references)

French		complice (accessary, accessory). (various references)

German		Komplize, Mitschuldige (accessory), Helfershelfer (abettor, accessory after the fact, sidekick). (various references)

Greek		συνένοχοσ (accessary, confederate, conniver). (various references)

Hungarian		cinkos (pander, privy), bűnrészes (abetter, abettor, accessory, privy, to connive at a crime). (various references)

Indonesian		kawan sekongkol (partner (in crime)), kakitangan (henchman, stooge), kaki tangan (accessory, collaboration, pander), bicokok (rogue, small crocodile). (various references)

Italian		complice (abetter, abettor, accessory, partner, party). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		相�' (pal, partner), � 担者 , 同類 (the same kind), ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round), �"犯 (complicity), 共謀者 (conspirator), 共犯者 (henchman), 合い (associate, joint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうぼうしゃ (conspirator), きょうは�"しゃ (henchman), ぐる (cohort), どうるい (the same kind), かた�"しゃ, あいぼう (companion, pal, partner), あい (associate, fellow, indigo, joint, love, mutually, together), じゅうは�" (additional printing, complicity, felon, felony, literary piracy, old offender, second edition). (various references)

Korean		연루자. (various references)

Manx		cophartnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		accompliceay.(various references)

Portuguese		cúmplice (abetter, abettor, accessary, complice, confederate, partaker, partner, privy). (various references)

Romanian		ajutor (abettor, accommodation, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), pãrtaş (acolyte, adept, limb, retainer), complice (abetter, accessory, acolyte, confederate, party). (various references)

Russian		сообщник (complice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		saučesnik (abettor, accessary, accessory, actor, collaborator). (various references)

Spanish		cómplice (abettor, accessory, associate, confederate, party, privy, Shill). (various references)

Swedish		medbrottsling (accessary, accessory, complice, confederate, party). (various references)

Turkish		suç ortağı (abettor, accessary, accessory, accessory before the fact, bottle-holder, confederate, joint offender, stiff). (various references)

Ukranian		співучасник (abettor, accessary, accessory, associate, bander, complice, confederate), спільник (abettor, associate). (various references)

Vietnamese		kẻ tòng phạm, kẻ đ�"ng loã. (various references)

Welsh		cynorthwywr mewn trosedd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adfines, adfinis, adiutor, adiutore, adiutorem, adiutores, adiutori, adiutoribus, adiutoris, adiutorium, complicare, conscium, conscius, minister, ministri, ministris, ministro, ministrorum, ministros, ministrum, satellites, satellitibus, sodalem, sodales, sodalibus, sodalis, sodalium. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	complice. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "accomplice": accomplices. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Accomplice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accommol, accomp, acomplice, acompline, complice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "accomplice" (pronounced ukÄ"mplus)
4	-p l u s	hapless, helpless, hopeless, shapeless, sleepless, surplus, topless, zipless.
3	-l u s	acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, harmless, headless, heartless, homeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shiftless, skinless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-i-l-m-o-p"
	-2 letters: alopecic, complice.
	-3 letters: coeliac, comical, compile, oilcamp, polemic.
	-4 letters: calcic, calico, celiac, cicale, coccal, compel, copalm, epical, icecap, impale, ipecac, lipoma, malice, plaice, plicae, police, pomace.
	-5 letters: acmic, amice, amole, ample, camel, cameo, campi, campo, cecal, celom, claim, clamp, clime, clomp, cocci, colic, comae, comal, comic, copal, email, ileac, impel, limpa, macle, maile, malic, maple, mecca, melic, milpa, oleic, pical, pilea, place, plica.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-e-i-l-m-o-p"
	+1 letter: accomplices.
	+2 letters: complicacies, hypocalcemic.
	+3 letters: complacencies, microcephalic.
	+4 letters: microcephalics, psychochemical.
	+5 letters: physicochemical, psychochemicals.
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