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Felon

Definitions: Felon

Felon

Noun

1. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime.

2. A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "felon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: Felon

DomainDefinitions

Satire

FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Felon

Synonyms: criminal (n), crook (n), malefactor (n), outlaw (n), whitlow (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Felon

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bad Man

Culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp; disorderly person, misdemeanant; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Felon

English words defined with "felon": accessory after the factFellonhue and cryReceiptment, RunroundTo follow up, Tyburn ticket. (references)
Specialty definitions using "felon": Felon. (references)
Etymologies containing "felon": Fellon, Felo-de-se. (references)

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Modern Usage: Felon

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Wouldn't you lie about having a felon in the family to get a job like this? (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Lyrics

He telling cuz how to live and he a felon ("Just A Baby Boy"; performing artist: Tyrese)

Movie/TV Titles

First-Time Felon (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Felon

DomainTitle

Books

  • Feline Felon (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Salem's Tails, 8) (reference)

  • The Felon (reference)

  • Undue Process: Diary of an Irish Felon (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Felon

"Felon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Felon" is used about 48 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4849,194

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

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Expression: Felon

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "felon": ex-felon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Felon

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

felon

37

felon look t.d.o.c up

3

felon magazine

14

database felon search texas

3

convicted felon

10

employment felon

3

first time felon

9

convicted felon right

3

clothing felon

8

can carry felon handcuffs

2

felon right

6

felon tom

2

felon registered

6

convicted database felon

2

convicted felon texas

5

account agent bank convicted felon texas

2

banking convicted felon

4

database felon search

2

convicted felon right texas

4

felon male registered white

2

felon search

4

convicted felon list

2

felon infection

4

felon firearm in possession

2

ex felon

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Felon

Language Translations for "felon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kriminel (delinquent, hoodlum, malefactor, malfeasant, mobster, offender, outlaw), kriminal (criminal, felonious), infeksion i rrëzës së thoit, i lig (bad, basilisk, catty, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مجرم (criminal, culprit, delinquent, evil doer, gangster, guilty, malefactor, miscreant, perpetrator), ‏داحوس في الاصبع, ‏داحس (whitlow). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

углавен престъпник, разбойник (bandolero, brigand, desperado, footpad, highwayman, outlaw, pad, robber, scamp, scoundrel, villain), гнойно възпаление на пръста, панацериум. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

重犯. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zloèinec (criminal, malefactor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kynsiajos (whitlow). (various references)

   

French

  

criminel (felonious). (various references)

   

German

  

Verbrecher (convict, criminal, criminals, felons, gangster, malefactor, perpetrator, thug, villain), schwerverbrecher (dangerous criminal, dangerous criminals, felons). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακούργοσ (criminal, desperado, racketeer, ruffian, ruffianly, thug, yegg), παρανυχίδα (cuticle, hangnail, whitlow). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פושע (apostate, criminal, gangster, peccant). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, dispiteous, ferocious, grim, hard, heinous, inhuman, insensate, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scathing, tigerish, tyrannical), körömméreg, körömágy-gyulladás, gonosztevő (baddie, evildoer, miscreant, thug), bűntettes (criminal offender, delinquent), aljas (blackguard, caitiff, dastardly, depraved, despicable, dirty mean, flagitious, foul, grovelling, infamous, knavish, low down, nefarious, perfidious, scrounging, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, shabby, sordid, villainous), álnok (deceitful, deceptive, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, double faced, false-hearted, hollow-hearted, perfidious, treacherous). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penjahat (bandit, criminal, delinquent, desperado, gangster, scum, tough, villain). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fellone. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

重犯 (felony, old offender). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じゅうぼ" (felony, old offender), じゅうは" (accomplice, additional printing, complicity, felony, literary piracy, old offender, second edition), ちょうは" (dice game, felony, gambling, odd and even numbers, old offender). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

악당 (Villain). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kimmagh (convict, criminal, culprit, detainee, jailbird, offender). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

forbryter. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elonfay

   

Portuguese

  

pina (curana, fellow, pina, silkgrass), malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, evil, felonry, flag officer, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, reprobate, scoundrelly, vicious, villain, wicked, wrong), homicida (alleged murderer, assassin, homicide, murderous), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), criminoso (criminal, felonious, flagitious, foul, gangster, guilty, malevolence, mobster, murderous, offender, outlaw, perpetrator, sinful). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ucigaş (assassin, bloodthirsty, bravo, choker, cut throat, deadly, fatal, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, sanguinary, thug), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), panariţiu (agnail, panaris, panaritium, whitlow), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, foul, rascal, rascally, reprobate, scamp, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), infractor (delinquent, law breaker, trespasser), criminal (criminal, criminally, felonious, flagitious, malefactor, miscreant, misdemeanant, murderer, murderous, offender, outrageous, perpetrator, slayer). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уголовный преступник (indictable offender), ногтоеда (agnail, whitlow), панариций (agnail, whitlow). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zločinac (criminal, evil doer, malefactor, miscreant, outlaw). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

felón, delincuente (culprit, defaulter, delinquent, felonious, gangsman, gangster, malfeasant, offender, thug). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brottsling (criminal, criminal offender, culprit, delinquent, malefactor). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อาชญากร (mobster). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), suçlu (con, convict, criminal, culpable, culprit, delinquent, evil doer, guilty, malefactor, misdemeanant, offender, transgressor), dolama (Dolman, whitlow, winding), cani (bravo, butcher, cutthroat, homicide, malefactor, murderer, villain). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фелон, лиходій (cannibal, fiend, malefactor, miscreant, villain), панарицій (whitlow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Felon

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fel. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

fellonem. (various references)

Old French900-1400

felon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Felon

Derivations

Words beginning with "felon": felonies, felonious, feloniously, feloniousness, feloniousnesses, felonries, felonry, felons, felony. (additional references)

Words containing "felon": lifelong. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Felon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celcon, efon, Efron, Elon, Fablon, Faenol, falan, falo, falon, Faloona, Falzon, famon, favon, fecon, feelin, feion, felan, Felcn, felen, Felim, felin, felion, Feliu, Fellin, Fellon, fellos, feln, felo, feloin, felox, Felson, femo, fenol, feol, Feola, feon, feron, feuo, Filion, filo, filoh, filom, filon, Finlon, flean, floon, foln, fulforn, fuln, fulon, fupon, helon, pelon, velon, xelon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Felon"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "felon" (pronounced fe"lun)
4-e" l u nmelon, pelon.
3-l u nadrenaline, Alan, Ballon, befallen, Billon, bouillon, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, colon, crestfallen, discipline, elan, fallen, gallon, globulin, gremlin, insulin, javelin, kaolin, Kremlin, lanolin, Magdalen, Marlin, masculine, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, penicillin, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, pollen, porcelain, solan, Solon, stolen, stollen, sullen, swollen, talon, Tolan, triathlon, vanillin, villain, watermelon, woolen, woollen, Zeppelin.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Felon

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-n-o"

-1 letter: enol, floe, leno, lone, noel.

-2 letters: elf, eon, fen, foe, fon, ole, one.

-3 letters: ef, el, en, lo, ne, no, oe, of, on.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-n-o"
 

+1 letter: enfold, felons, felony, fondle, olefin.

 

+2 letters: enfolds, felonry, flavone, flexion, flounce, fondled, fondler, fondles, lobefin, menfolk, nonfuel, nonlife, nonself, offline, olefine, olefins, onefold, oneself, reflown, sulfone, tenfold.

 

+3 letters: conflate, diolefin, enfolded, enfolder, falconer, falconet, farnesol, felonies, felstone, flamenco, flavones, flection, flexagon, flexions, florence, florigen, flounced, flounces, flounder, fluorene, fluorine, foilsmen, fondlers, fontanel, foreland, foulness, frontlet, frozenly, halftone, honeyful, hornfels, infolded, infolder, lifelong, lobefins, longleaf, menfolks, monofuel, ninefold, nonleafy, olefines, olefinic, pantofle, roofline, stonefly, sulfones, tenfolds, unfoiled, unfolded, unfolder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Felon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 6C 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01101100 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#108 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 006C 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4071788180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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