Usually means: Individual convicted of serious crime.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word felon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. felon: Merriam-Webster
  2. felon, felon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. felon, felon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. felon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. felon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Felon, felon: Wordnik
  7. felon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. felon: Wiktionary
  9. felon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. felon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. felon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. felon: Dictionary.com
  13. felon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. felon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Felon (disambiguation), Felon (film), Felon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Felon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. felon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. felon: Rhymezone
  19. Felon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. felon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. felon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. felon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. felon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. felon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. felon: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. felon: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. felon: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. felon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. felon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. felon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Felon (fingertip infection): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. felon: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  6. felon: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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

(Note: See felons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly poetic) Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel, harsh, heartless; also, evil, wicked.
adjective:  (by extension) Of a place: harsh, savage, wild; of a thing: deadly; harmful.
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Obtained through a felony; stolen.
noun:  (criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.
noun:  (obsolete) An evil or wicked person; also (by extension) a predatory animal regarded as cruel or wicked.
noun:  (pathology, veterinary medicine) A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil; specifically, a whitlow (“infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail”).

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