WordReference.com English Dictionary
See Also:
fell
fellah
fellatio
felloes
fellow
fellow feeling
fellow-traveller
fellowship
felo de se
felon
felony
felsic
felspar
felt
felt-tip pen
felucca
felwort
female
female condom
feme covert
feme sole
fellah
fellatio
felloes
fellow
fellow feeling
fellow-traveller
fellowship
felo de se
felon
felony
felsic
felspar
felt
felt-tip pen
felucca
felwort
female
female condom
feme covert
feme sole
Links:
- Abbreviations
- Pron. Symbols
- Forums
- Support WR
- Link to WR
- API
- Suggestions
- Click on word:
Recent searches:
Try out WordReference Random Word! Each page load will return a random word from the dictionary. Or test your knowledge and have each page load with the definition hidden!
felony: |
in Spanish | in French | in Italian English synonyms| in context | images |
felony misprision
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
felony/ˈfeləni/
▶noun (pl. felonies) a crime regarded in the US and many other judicial systems as more serious than a misdemeanour.
– derivatives
felonious adjective,
feloniously adverb.
felonious adjective,
feloniously adverb.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
misprision1 /mɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/ (also misprision of treason or felony)
▶noun Law, chiefly historical the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a crime.
– origin ME: from OFr. mesprision ‘error’, from mesprendre, from mes- ‘wrongly’ + prendre ‘to take’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
misprision2 /mɪsˈprɪʒ(ə)n/
▶noun rare erroneous judgement.
'felony' also found in these Oxford entries:
Forum discussions with the word(s) "felony" in the title:
Look up "felony" at Merriam-Webster
Look up "felony" at dictionary.com
In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic
Copyright © 2012 WordReference.com
Please report any problems.