We should do away with the death penalty.
Source: tatoeba (22948)
Penalty
//ˈpɛnəlti//
Synonyms for "penalty" (113 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
8 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
has context
4 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriespart of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
108 translations across 49 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- جَزَاء noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Armenian
2 entries- պատիժ noun (legal sentence)
- տուգանք noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cəza noun (legal sentence)
Belarusian
3 entries- ка́ра noun (legal sentence)
- пакара́нне noun (legal sentence)
- штраф noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гло́ба noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- наказа́ние noun (legal sentence)
- наказа́ние noun (punishment in ice hockey)
- са́нкция noun (legal sentence)
Catalan
1 entries- càstig noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Cebuano
1 entries- silot noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 懲罰 /惩罚 noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Cornish
2 entries- spal noun (legal sentence)
- spal noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Danish
1 entries- straf noun (legal sentence)
Dutch
2 entries- straf noun (legal sentence)
- straf noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Esperanto
1 entries- penalo noun (punishment in ice hockey)
Finnish
4 entries- jäähy noun (punishment in ice hockey)
- korvaus noun (finance: payment for early withdrawal)
- rangaistus noun (legal sentence)
- rangaistus noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
French
2 entries- peine noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- penalisation noun (legal sentence)
German
2 entries- Strafe noun (legal sentence)
- Strafe noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Greek
4 entries- αντίτιμο noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- κύρωση noun (legal sentence)
- ποινή noun (legal sentence)
- τιμωρία noun (legal sentence)
Hindi
2 entries- दण्ड noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- सज़ा noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Hungarian
3 entries- bírság noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- büntetés noun (legal sentence)
- büntetés noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Icelandic
2 entries- hegning noun (legal sentence)
- hegning noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Irish
3 entries- pionós noun (legal sentence)
- pionós noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- pionós noun (punishment in ice hockey)
Italian
1 entries- penalità noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Japanese
4 entries- 仕置き noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- 刑 noun (legal sentence)
- 刑罰 noun (legal sentence)
- 懲らしめ noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Kikuyu
1 entries- ihera noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Korean
4 entries- 징벌 noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- 처벌 noun (legal sentence)
- 형벌 noun (legal sentence)
- 형벌 noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Latgalian
1 entries- struope noun (legal sentence)
Latin
1 entries- multa noun (legal sentence)
Latvian
1 entries- sods noun (legal sentence)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bausmė noun (legal sentence)
Macedonian
4 entries- гло́ба noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- ка́зна noun (legal sentence)
- ка́зна noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- пена́л noun (punishment in ice hockey)
Malay
1 entries- hukuman noun (legal sentence)
Malayalam
3 entries- പിഴ noun (finance: payment for early withdrawal)
- ശിക്ഷ noun (legal sentence)
- ശിക്ഷ noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- straff noun (legal sentence)
- straff noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- straff noun (legal sentence)
- straff noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- جزا noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Strof noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Polish
2 entries- kara noun (legal sentence)
- kara noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Portuguese
2 entries- pena noun (legal sentence)
- penalidade noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Romanian
3 entries- pedeapsă noun (legal sentence)
- pedeapsă noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- penalizare noun (legal sentence)
Russian
4 entries- булли́т noun (punishment in ice hockey)
- взыска́ние noun (legal sentence)
- наказа́ние noun (legal sentence)
- штраф noun (legal sentence)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- peanas noun (legal sentence)
- peanas noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ཀྱོམ noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Spanish
2 entries- castigo noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- pena noun (legal sentence)
Swahili
2 entries- faini noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- penalti noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Swedish
3 entries- straff noun (legal sentence)
- straff noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- utvisning noun (punishment in ice hockey)
Tagalog
3 entries- bayad-sala noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
- parusa noun (legal sentence)
- parusa noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ка́ра noun (legal sentence)
- покара́ння noun (legal sentence)
- штраф noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trừng phạt noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Walloon
2 entries- poenne noun (legal sentence)
- poenålté noun (legal sentence)
Welsh
2 entries- cosb noun (legal sentence)
- cosb noun (punishment for violating rules of procedure)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The penalty for spitting is five pounds.
Source: tatoeba (39799)
The man is liable to the death penalty.
Source: tatoeba (45312)
Such conduct would subject the offender to a heavy penalty.
Source: tatoeba (49804)
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