Definitions for felon

felon fel·on

Spelling: [fel-uh n]
IPA: /ˈfɛl ən/

Felon is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in felon (eflno).

Definitions for felon

noun

  1. Law. a person who has committed a felony.
  2. Archaic. a wicked person.
  3. an acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of a finger or toe, usually near the nail: a form of whitlow.

adjective

  1. Archaic. wicked; malicious; treacherous.

Origin of felon

1250-1300; Middle English fel(o)un “wicked, wicked person, evildoer,” from Old French fel (nominative), felun (oblique) “wicked person, traitor,” from Medieval Latin fellon-, stem of fello “v

Examples for felon

A felon or domestic batterer or disturbed person need only find a person with a clean background to buy a weapon for him.

You must not leave me—you shall not—I am not to be deserted for the sake of a felon!

No man at last believes that he can be lost, nor that the crime in him is as black as in the felon.

It seemed a lifetime that he had lived in the noisome atmosphere of a felon's cell.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is a grifter and a wingnut, but is he possibly a felon too?

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then maybe talk radio is the first refuge of felon.

His dear friend, a felon, taken in open fight by a British cruiser!

Burke and Schubert believe that adding to the list of felon profiles could close countless unsolved cases.

They may arrest me as a felon—at any rate I shall be forced to leave the bank and go away.

Under that law a felon convicted of violent federal crimes for the third time would be sentenced to life in prison.

Word Value for felon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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