felon

noun
🔊/ˈfelən/
🔊/ˈfelən/
(especially North American English, law法律)
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  1. a person who has committed a serious crime such as murder or rape重罪犯
    • felons who have served their sentence服完刑的重罪犯
    • The law requires convicted felons entering the state to register their address with the police.这项法律要求进入该州的已定罪重犯向警方登记住址。
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • convicted
    • former
    • violent
    felon + verb
    • serve something
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, literally ‘wicked, a wicked person’ (oblique case of fel ‘evil’), from medieval Latin fello, fellon-, of unknown origin.