CONVICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convict mean? 

• CONVICT (noun)
  The noun CONVICT has 2 senses:

1. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

2. a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

  Familiarity information: CONVICT used as a noun is rare.

• CONVICT (verb)
  The verb CONVICT has 1 sense:

1. find or declare guilty

  Familiarity information: CONVICT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

con; convict; inmate; yard bird; yardbird

Hypernyms ("convict" is a kind of...):

captive; prisoner (a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convict"):

lifer (a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment)

trusty (a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges)

Derivation:

convict (find or declare guilty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("convict" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convict"):

first offender (someone convicted for the first time)

sex offender (someone who has been convicted of a sex crime)

Derivation:

convict (find or declare guilty)

• CONVICT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they convict ... he / she / it convicts
Past simple: convicted   
Past participle: convicted   
-ing form: convicting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Find or declare guilty

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced

Hypernyms (to "convict" is one way to...):

judge; label; pronounce (pronounce judgment on)

"Convict" entails doing...:

evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "convict"):

reconvict (convict anew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something

Antonym:

acquit (pronounce not guilty of criminal charges)

Derivation:

convict (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison)

convict (a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense)

conviction ((criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed)

 Context examples 

An instant later the explosion occurred, though Hudson thought it was caused by the misdirected bullet of one of the convicts rather than the mate’s match.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He and his master dragged me to my room and held judgment upon me as a convicted traitress.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this he failed, but Alexis was sent a convict to Siberia, where now, at this moment, he works in a salt mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was about this time that the newspapers were full of the daring escape of a convict from San Quentin prison.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Alas! who is safe, if she be convicted of crime?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jo had not told him why he was wanted, fearing he wouldn't come, but he knew the minute he saw Mrs. March's face, and stood twirling his hat with a guilty air which convicted him at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was convicted of sin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yet, if you'll read his letter, you'll find he is the tenderest of men to prisoners convicted of the whole calendar of felonies, said I; though I can't find that his tenderness extends to any other class of created beings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Scarcely, however, had she convicted her fancy of error, when the noise of something moving close to her door made her start; it seemed as if someone was touching the very doorway—and in another moment a slight motion of the lock proved that some hand must be on it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)