Usually means: Serious crime, typically with imprisonment.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word felony:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. felony: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. felony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. felony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. felony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. felony: Vocabulary.com
  6. Felony, felony: Wordnik
  7. felony: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. felony: Wiktionary
  9. felony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. felony: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. felony: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. felony: Dictionary.com
  13. felony: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Felony (album), Felony (band), Felony (disambiguation), Felony (film), Felony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Felony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. felony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. felony: Rhymezone
  18. felony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. felony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. felony: Free Dictionary
  21. felony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. felony: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. felony: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FELONY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. felony: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. felony: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. felony: Legal dictionary
  9. felony: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. felony: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. felony: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. felony: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (law, criminology, US, historical in UK) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not less than one year or by the death penalty in the most serious offenses.

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