Such conduct would subject the offender to a heavy penalty.
Source: tatoeba (49804)
Offender
//əˈfen.də(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "offender" (23 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (11)
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2 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
11 entriesderived from
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5 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- جَانٍ noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Belarusian
1 entries- злачынец noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Bulgarian
3 entries- виновник noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- нарушител noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- престъпник noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 冒犯者 noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- 犯罪分子 noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- 罪犯 noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- 違法者 /违法者 noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Czech
1 entries- zločinec noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Dutch
1 entries- schuldige noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Finnish
3 entries- loukkaaja noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- rikkoja noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- syyllinen noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
French
1 entries- contrevenant noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
German
4 entries- Straftäter noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- Straftäterin noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- Täter noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- Täter noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Greek
1 entries- παραβάτης noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Hungarian
3 entries- bűnelkövető noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- bűnöző noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- jogsértő noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Icelandic
1 entries- lögbrotamaður noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Indonesian
1 entries- pelanggar noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Irish
1 entries- ciontóir noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Italian
2 entries- contravventore noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- corrigendo noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Japanese
2 entries- 犯罪者 noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- 罪人 noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Latin
1 entries- offensor noun (one who gives or causes offense)
Macedonian
1 entries- престапник noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Manx
1 entries- foiljagh noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lovbryter noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lovbrytar noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Persian
4 entries- تقصیرکار noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- خاطی noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- قانونشکن noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- مقصر noun (one who gives or causes offense)
Polish
1 entries- przestępca noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Portuguese
4 entries- criminoso noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- ofensor noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- réu noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- transgressor noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Russian
4 entries- оби́дчик noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- оби́дчица noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- правонаруши́тель noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- правонаруши́тельница noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ciontach noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Spanish
3 entries- delincuente noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- ofensor noun (one who gives or causes offense)
- ofensor noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Swedish
2 entries- gärningskvinna noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- gärningsman noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Telugu
2 entries- అపరాధి noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- నేరస్థుడు noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้กระทำผิด noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Ukrainian
2 entries- правопору́шник noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
- правопору́шниця noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Welsh
1 entries- pechadur noun (a person who commits an offense against the law)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The police spotted him at once as the offender.
Source: tatoeba (238144)
The political offender rebelled against the police authority.
Source: tatoeba (271404)
He even suspected that the man was the principal offender.
Source: tatoeba (301435)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.