convict

From Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convinco (“to convict”)

Verb

• AHD: kən'vĭkt, IPA^(key): /kənˈvɪkt/

• Audio (US), verb

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnvɪkt/
• (US) AHD: kŏn'vĭkt; IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnvɪkt/

• Audio (US), noun

  (file)

convict (third-person singular simple present convicts, present participle convicting, simple past and past participle convicted)

1. (transitive) to find guilty
   1. as a result of legal proceedings, of a crime, of charges, on charges of something
   2. informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act
2. (esp. religious) to convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something)

• (legal crime) sentence
• (informal) disapprove

• conviction

convict (plural convicts)

1. (law) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
2. A person deported to a penal colony.
3. The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
4. A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.

• (person convicted of crime): assigned servant, con, government man, public servant
• (person deported to a penal colony): penal colonist

• con (synonym)