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Definition: Larceny |
LarcenyNoun1. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "larceny" was first used: sometime in the mid-15th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Larceny Petty theft, means really the peculations and thefts of a mercenary. (Greek latron, hire [latris, a hireling]; Latin latro, a mercenary, whence latrocinium; French, larcin.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In most of the United States the common law definitions of certain crimes have been modified. Quite often the general crime of theft has replaced larceny, and most related common law crimes such as embezzlement, false pretenses, robbery, and receipt of stolen property.
Larceny by Trick occurs when the victim of larceny is tricked by a misrepresentation of fact into giving up possession of property. This should not be confused with false pretenses, where the victim is tricked into giving up title to the property.
Grand larceny is typically defined as larceny of a significant amount of property, in the US this is often defined as an amount valued at $200200 or more.
See also: motor vehicle theft.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Larceny."
Synonyms: LarcenySynonyms: stealing (n), theft (n), thievery (n), thieving (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: pettiest (law). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stealing | Peculation, embezzlement; fraud; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Larceny |
| English words defined with "larceny": breach of trust with fraudulent intent ♦ grand larceny ♦ larcener, Larcenies, larcenist, Latrociny ♦ Petit larceny, petty larceny, Petty officer ♦ robbery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "larceny": EXPANSION ♦ From ♦ Of ♦ PICKING. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "larceny": Burglar ♦ larcenous, Latrociny. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The hyenas are used to the sounds of death and arise instantly with larceny in their hearts. (The Leopard Son; writing credit: Michael Olmert) Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Larceny (2001) A Touch of Larceny (1959) Larceny (1947) Petticoat Larceny (1943) Larceny with Music (1943) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Center of action in "The Night before Christmas," opening Thursday. Forrest Orr, George Matthews, Louis Sorin and Phyllis Brooks are involved in the daffy proceedings. The comedy, by Laura and S.J. Perelman, is concerned with larceny.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Human Rights | Belarus | Charges of "large-scale larceny committed by a group" were pending at year's end. (references) |
Mongolia | Local courts hear mostly routine criminal and civil cases; provincial courts hear more serious cases such as rape, murder, and grand larceny and also serve as the appeals court for lower court decisions. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. |
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| "Larceny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Larceny" is used about 98 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% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "larceny": aggravated larceny ♦ Compound larceny ♦ grand larceny ♦ mixed larceny ♦ petit larceny ♦ petit larceny are ♦ petty larceny ♦ simple larceny. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
larceny | 64 |
grand larceny | 42 |
larceny petit | 13 |
petty larceny | 10 |
definition larceny | 9 |
definition grand larceny | 5 |
larceny theft | 3 |
larceny misdemeanor | 3 |
larceny charge | 3 |
6th degree larceny | 2 |
larceny punishment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "larceny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vjedhje (abduction, burglary, lift, peculation, picking, pinch, rapine, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery, trousering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لصوصية (brigandage, thievery), سرقة (lift, pilfering, pinch, plunder, robbery, steal, stealing, stealthiness, stick up, theft, thievery, trash), خلسة (by stealth, on the sly, stealthily, surreptitiously), إنتحال (plagiarism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кражба (job, lift, pinch, rip off, robbery, steal, stealing, theft, thievery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 偷窃 (Larcenies, Pilfer, Pilfered, Pilfering, theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krádež (robbery, theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleine diefstal (petty theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سرقت (Lift, Prowl, Robbery, Theft, Thievery), دستبرد (Defalcation, Robbery), دزدی (Burglary, Lift, Nip, Robbery, Theft, Thievery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | näpistys (petty theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | larcin (petty larceny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | diebstahl (abstraction, burglary, pilfering, plunder, theft, thievery, thieving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλοπή (crib, heist, piracy, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ' ב" (pilferage, robbery, theft, thievery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tolvajlás (filch, larcenous action, pilferage, pilfering, robbery, stealth, theft, thievery), lopás (filch, heist, larcenous action, nick, pinch, snap, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencurian (looting, rubbing, scam, theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piccolo furto (petty theft, pilferage), furto (abstraction, pinch, robbery, search, snatch, stealing, theft, thieving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 窃盗 (stealing, theft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せっしゅ (absorption, adoption, assimilation, inoculation, intake, moderation in drink, poor defense, sobriety, stealing, temperance, theft, vaccination), せっとうざい (stealing, theft), せっとうは" (stealing, theft), せっとう (prefix, stealing, theft), とうは" (ascending, burglary, climbing, scaling, the eastern half). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 도죄 (Larcenies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | geid (kidnap, pinch, pocket, purloin, rustle, steal, thieve, thievery, thieving), gaddeeys (poaching, pocket picking, thieving), gaddeeaght (theft, thieving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcenylay furto (abstraction, filch, petty theft, picking, theft, thievery), dado ao roubo. (various references) furt (abstraction, burglarious, burglary, defalcation, embezzlement, job, lift, robbery, stealth, theft, thievery). (various references) воровство (picking, stealing, stealings, theft, thievery). (various references) razbojništvo (banditry, robbery), krađa (pickings, pinch, snitch, stealing, theft, thievery). (various references) hurto (petty larceny, pilferage, robbery, shoplifting, stealing, swag, theft, thievery). (various references) stöld (abstraction, robbery, steal, stealing, theft, thievery). (various references) การลักขโมย. (various references) hırsızlık (burglary, heist, hijack, hijacking, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, steal, theft, thievery), çalma (abstraction, blow, defalcation, knock, pilferage, playing, rendering, rendition, stealing, strike, tendency, theft). (various references) крадіжка (rip off, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, thievery), злодійство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | latron. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | latrocinium. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | larrecin. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Larceny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: larcen, larcency, larcony, larey, larseny, luceny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "larceny" (pronounced lÄ"rsunē) |
| 4 | -s u n ē | Saxony. |
| 3 | -u n ē | aborigine, accompany, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: carney, lancer, nearly. | |
-2 letters: caner, carle, carny, clary, clean, clear, crane, early, lacer, lacey, lance, layer, learn, leary, lycea, nacre, rance, relay, renal, yearn. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, acyl, aery, alec, aryl, cane, care, carl, carn, clan, clay, cyan, earl, earn, elan, eyra, lace, lacy, lane, lean, lear, lyre, narc, nary, near, race, racy, rale, real, rely, yare, yarn, yean, year. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, ane, any, arc, are, aye, can, car, cay, cel, cry, ear, era, ern, lac, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, nae, nay, ran, ray, rec, rya, rye, yar, yea, yen. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, an, ar, ay, el, en, er, la, na, ne, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: cravenly. | |
+2 letters: centrally, certainly, chandlery, clergyman, relevancy. | |
+3 letters: barleycorn, cavalrymen, centrality, irenically, lectionary, narcolepsy, reluctancy, screenplay. | |
+4 letters: ancestrally, anticruelty, barleycorns, cancerously, candleberry, caressingly, cavernously, centrically, chancellery, chancellory, circinately, clergywoman, colinearity, counterplay, crystalline, embracingly, generically, glycerinate, granulocyte, hypocentral, intercalary, intricately, irrelevancy, larcenously, lycanthrope, lyricalness, mercenarily, necessarily, numerically, oneirically, panegyrical, parenchymal, pecuniarily, polynuclear, preachingly, reluctantly, screamingly, screenplays, searchingly, secondarily, trenchantly, uncertainly. | |
+5 letters: agranulocyte, bonnyclabber, ceremonially, chlorenchyma, clairvoyance, clatteringly, collinearity, considerably, coordinately, cotyledonary, counterplays, counterrally, cybernetical, cyclopropane, decreasingly, discrepantly, elocutionary, entropically, exclusionary, forensically, frenetically, glycerinated, glycerinates, granulocytes, inaccurately, increasingly, ineradicably, inextricably, interfaculty, laryngectomy, laryngoscope, lycanthropes, neurotically, proteoglycan, radiolucency, recognizably, scatteringly, sclerenchyma, subcentrally, synergically, tetracycline, translucency, ungracefully, unhysterical, unicamerally, unrecyclable, unsearchably, vernacularly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 72 63 65 6E 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .-. -.-. . -. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100101 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a r c e n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0072 0063 0065 006E 0079 |
| 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)46678469718091 |
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