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Definitions: Felon |
FelonNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonyms: FelonSynonyms: criminal (n), crook (n), malefactor (n), outlaw (n), whitlow (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Felon |
| English words defined with "felon": accessory after the fact ♦ Fellon ♦ hue and cry ♦ Receiptment, Runround ♦ To follow up, Tyburn ticket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "felon": Felon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "felon": Fellon, Felo-de-se. (references) |
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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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "felon": ex-felon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 "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 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) 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) уголовный преступник (indictable offender), ногтоеда (agnail, whitlow), панариций (agnail, whitlow). (various references) zločinac (criminal, evil doer, malefactor, miscreant, outlaw). (various references) felón, delincuente (culprit, defaulter, delinquent, felonious, gangsman, gangster, malfeasant, offender, thug). (various references) brottsling (criminal, criminal offender, culprit, delinquent, malefactor). (various references) อาชญากร (mobster). (various references) 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) фелон, лиходій (cannibal, fiend, malefactor, miscreant, villain), панарицій (whitlow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fel. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | fellonem. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | felon. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "felon": felonies, felonious, feloniously, feloniousness, feloniousnesses, felonries, felonry, felons, felony. (additional references) | |
Words containing "felon": lifelong. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "felon" (pronounced fe"lun) |
| 4 | -e" l u n | melon, pelon. |
| 3 | -l u n | adrenaline, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 6C 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e l o n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071788180 |
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