Usually means: Person found guilty of crime.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. convict: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. convict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convict: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convict: Vocabulary.com
  6. Convict, convict: Wordnik
  7. convict: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convict: Wiktionary
  9. convict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convict: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convict: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Convict, convict: Dictionary.com
  13. convict (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. convict: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Convict (film), Convict, The Convict (film), The Convict: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Convict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. convict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. convict: Rhymezone
  19. Convict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. convict: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. convict: Free Dictionary
  22. convict: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. convict: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convict: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convict: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Convict (offensive), Convict (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. convict: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
verb:  (chiefly religion) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
noun:  (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
noun:  A person deported to a penal colony.
noun:  The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
noun:  A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

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