"misdemeanor" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-misdemeanor.wav Forms: misdemeanors [plural]
Etymology: From mis- + demeanor. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|demeanor}} mis- + demeanor Head templates: {{en-noun}} misdemeanor (plural misdemeanors), {{tlb|en|American spelling}} (American spelling)
  1. (law, criminology, historical in UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony. Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): Criminology, Law, Criminal law Translations (small crime): جُنْحَة (junḥa) [feminine] (Arabic), простъпка (prostǎpka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 輕罪 (Chinese Mandarin), 轻罪 (qīngzuì) (Chinese Mandarin), 輕微違反 (Chinese Mandarin), 轻微违反 (qīngwéi wéifǎn) [Macau] (Chinese Mandarin), přečin (Czech), přestupek [masculine] (Czech), overtreding [feminine] (Dutch), wanbedrijf [Belgium, neuter] (Dutch), lievä rikos (Finnish), rikkomus (Finnish), forfait [masculine] (French), délit [masculine] (French), Vergehen [neuter] (German), πταίσμα (ptaísma) (english: up to one month of imprisonment) [neuter] (Greek), πλημμέλημα (plimmélima) (english: up to five years of imprisonment) [neuter] (Greek), חֵטְא (ẖet) [masculine] (Hebrew), szabálysértés (Hungarian), 軽罪 (keizai) (alt: けいざい) (Japanese), 軽犯罪 (keihanzai) (alt: けいはんざい) (Japanese), 微罪 (bizai) (alt: びざい) (Japanese), қылық (qylyq) (Kazakh), 경죄 (gyeongjoe) (alt: 輕罪) (Korean), 경범죄 (gyeongbeomjoe) (alt: 輕犯罪) (Korean), wykroczenie [neuter] (Polish), występek [masculine] (Polish), contravenção [feminine] (Portuguese), просту́пок (prostúpok) [masculine] (Russian), правонаруше́ние (pravonarušénije) [neuter] (Russian), contravención [feminine] (Spanish), falta (Spanish), mala conducta (Spanish), förseelse [common-gender] (Swedish), lagöverträdelse [common-gender] (Swedish), camymddygiad [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. Any act of misbehavior. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-misdemeanor-en-noun-45iltf7s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: misdeed, petty crime, misdemeanour [UK] Derived forms: misdemeanant, misdemeanist, misdemeanorize

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "expansion": "mis- + demeanor",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + demeanor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misdemeanors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "misdemeanor (plural misdemeanors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "American spelling"
      },
      "expansion": "(American spelling)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "mis‧de‧mean‧or"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Criminology",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: felony"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "criminology",
          "criminology"
        ],
        [
          "lesser",
          "lesser"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "common law",
          "common law"
        ],
        [
          "legal system",
          "legal system"
        ],
        [
          "generally",
          "generally"
        ],
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ],
        [
          "severely",
          "severely"
        ],
        [
          "felony",
          "felony"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law, criminology, historical in UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in UK"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "criminology",
        "human-sciences",
        "law",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Quoted in 2002, The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler (page 32)",
          "text": "Because of the mother's lack of affection and the judgments made by everybody around her, the child is in opposition to everybody. Her misdemeanors may be partly the expression of her inner revolt."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any act of misbehavior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "misbehavior",
          "misbehavior"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɪsdɪˈmiːnə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "misdeed"
    },
    {
      "word": "petty crime"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "misdemeanour"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "junḥa",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "جُنْحَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prostǎpka",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "простъпка"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "輕罪"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngzuì",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "轻罪"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "輕微違反"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngwéi wéifǎn",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "Macau"
      ],
      "word": "轻微违反"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "přečin"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "přestupek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "overtreding"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "Belgium",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wanbedrijf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "lievä rikos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "rikkomus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "forfait"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "délit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Vergehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "english": "up to one month of imprisonment",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ptaísma",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πταίσμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "english": "up to five years of imprisonment",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "plimmélima",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "πλημμέλημα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ẖet",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חֵטְא"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "szabálysértés"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいざい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keizai",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "軽罪"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいはんざい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keihanzai",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "軽犯罪"
    },
    {
      "alt": "びざい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bizai",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "微罪"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qylyq",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "қылық"
    },
    {
      "alt": "輕罪",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyeongjoe",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "경죄"
    },
    {
      "alt": "輕犯罪",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyeongbeomjoe",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "경범죄"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wykroczenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "występek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "contravenção"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prostúpok",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "просту́пок"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pravonarušénije",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "правонаруше́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "contravención"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "falta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "word": "mala conducta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "förseelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lagöverträdelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small crime",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camymddygiad"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "misdemeanor"
  ],
  "word": "misdemeanor"
}

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