FELON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does felon mean? 

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

1. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

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

  Familiarity information: FELON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw

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

principal ((criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement)

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

arsonist; firebug; incendiary (a criminal who illegally sets fire to property)

law offender; lawbreaker; violator (someone who violates the law)

traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

contrabandist; moon-curser; moon curser; runner; smuggler (someone who imports or exports without paying duties)

scofflaw (one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses)

habitual criminal; recidivist; repeater (someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior))

raper; rapist (someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse)

racketeer (someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion))

drug dealer; drug peddler; drug trafficker; peddler; pusher (an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs)

parolee; probationer (someone released on probation or on parole)

liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))

gangster's moll; gun moll; moll (the girlfriend of a gangster)

mafioso (a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States)

abductor; kidnaper; kidnapper; snatcher (someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom))

gaolbird; jail bird; jailbird (a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly)

goon; hood; hoodlum; punk; strong-armer; thug; tough; toughie (an aggressive and violent young criminal)

highjacker; hijacker (someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination)

highbinder (a corrupt politician)

gangster; mobster (a criminal who is a member of gang)

fugitive; fugitive from justice (someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice)

desperado; desperate criminal (a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier))

coconspirator; conspirator; machinator; plotter (a member of a conspiracy)

briber; suborner (someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act)

bootlegger; moonshiner (someone who makes or sells illegal liquor)

blackmailer; extortioner; extortionist (a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them)

accessary; accessory (someone who helps another person commit a crime)

Instance hyponyms:

Billie the Kid; Bonney; William H. Bonney (United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881))

James; Jesse James (United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882))

MacGregor; Rob Roy; Robert MacGregor (Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

felon; whitlow

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

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

 Context examples 

An instant afterwards he had closed the door behind us, and we had become felons in the eyes of the law.

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

The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in ’tween-decks of the barque Gloria Scott, bound for Australia.

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