crime

English Online Dictionary. What means crime‎? What does crime mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency
5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

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Collocations

Translations

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
2. (nonce word) To commit crime.

See also

• delictual
• felony
• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

Asturian

Noun

crime m (plural crímenes)

1. murder
2. crime

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁim/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. a category of severe offences within French law, comparable to a felony under United States laws. Crime are tied to the strongest of penalties, 10 years and more according to law.

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Related terms

See also

• délit

Further reading

• “crime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.me/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: crì‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

Further reading

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• cremi, merci

Middle English

Noun

crime

1. alternative form of cryme

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cri‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   Synonym: delito

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrime]

Noun

crime f

1. inflection of crimă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular