He was banished to an island for high treason.
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Treason
//ˈtɹiː.zən//
Synonyms for "treason" (68 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (34)
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10 entriesTranslations
184 translations across 78 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- tradhti noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- προδοσία noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- προδοσία noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Arabic
2 entries- خِيَانَة noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- خِيَانَة noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Armenian
4 entries- դավաճանություն noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- դավաճանություն noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- մատնություն noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- մատնություն noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xəyanət noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Belarusian
1 entries- здра́да noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Bengali
2 entries- খেয়ানত noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- রাজদ্রোহ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Bulgarian
4 entries- изда́йничество noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- изда́йство noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- измя́на noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- измя́на noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Burmese
1 entries- အတွင်းရန် noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Catalan
4 entries- col·laboracionisme noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- quintacolumnisme noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- traïció noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- traïció noun (act of treachery)
Cebuano
3 entries- pagbudhi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- pagbudhi noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- pagluib noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 出賣 /出卖 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 叛國 /叛国 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 叛國 /叛国 noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- 叛國罪 /叛国罪 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Czech
4 entries- kolaborace noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- velezrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- vlastizrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- zrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Danish
3 entries- forræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- kollaboration noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- landsforræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Dari
1 entries- خِیَانَت noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Dutch
4 entries- hoogverraad noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landverraad noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- verraad noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- verraad noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Esperanto
1 entries- perfido noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Estonian
1 entries- reetmine noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Finnish
4 entries- maanpetos noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- maanpetos noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- petos noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- pettäminen noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
French
2 entries- trahison noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- trahison noun (act of treachery)
Galician
3 entries- traizón noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- traizón noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- traizón noun (act of treachery)
Georgian
1 entries- ღალატი noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
German
2 entries- Landesverrat noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- Verrat noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Greek
2 entries- προδοσία noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- προδοσία noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Gujarati
1 entries- રાજદ્રોહ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Hebrew
1 entries- בְּגִידָה \ בגידה noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Hindi
4 entries- देशद्रोह noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- देशद्रोह noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- द्रोह noun (act of treachery)
- धोखा noun (act of treachery)
Hungarian
2 entries- hitszegés noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- árulás noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Icelandic
3 entries- föðurlandssvik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landráð noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- svik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Ido
1 entries- trahizo noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Indonesian
2 entries- makar noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- pengkhianatan noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- خِیانَت noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- غَدَّاری noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Irish
1 entries- tréas noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Italian
3 entries- collaborazionismo noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- connivenza noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- tradimento noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Japanese
4 entries- 反逆 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 反逆罪 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 裏切り noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 裏切り noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Kalmyk
1 entries- урвлт noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Kazakh
2 entries- опасыздық noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- сатқындық noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Khmer
1 entries- ការក្បត់ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Korean
4 entries- 반역죄 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 배반 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 배신 noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- 배신 noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- чыккынчылык noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Lao
1 entries- ການຂາຽຊາດ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Latin
1 entries- prōditiō noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Latvian
1 entries- nodevība noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išdavystė noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Macedonian
2 entries- предавство noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- предавство noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Malay
1 entries- pengkhianatan noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഒറ്റ് noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- രാജ്യദ്രോഹം noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Maltese
1 entries- tradiment noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Mongolian
1 entries- урвалт noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Māori
2 entries- kaikaiwaiū noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- kaikaiwaiūtanga noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Norman
1 entries- trahison noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- xiyanet noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- îxanet noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- forræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- høyforræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landsforræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landssvik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- forræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landsforræderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- landssvik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Pashto
1 entries- خيانت noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Polish
2 entries- kolaboracja noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- zdrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Portuguese
4 entries- colaboração noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- crime de lesa-pátria noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- lesa-pátria noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- traição noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Romanian
1 entries- trădare noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Russian
4 entries- госизме́на noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- госуда́рственная изме́на noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- изме́на noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- изме́на noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ìzdājstvo noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- ȉzdaja noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- и̏здаја noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- ѝзда̄јство noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Sicilian
1 entries- tradimentu noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Slovak
2 entries- vlastizrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- zrada noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Slovene
2 entries- izdaja noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- izdajstvo noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Spanish
4 entries- colaboracionismo noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- colaboración con el enemigo noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- traición noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- traición noun (act of treachery)
Swedish
3 entries- förräderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- förräderi noun (providing aid and comfort to the enemy)
- landsförräderi noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Tajik
3 entries- хиёнат noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- хоинӣ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- ғаддори noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Tamil
1 entries- துரோகம் noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Tatar
1 entries- хыянәт noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Telugu
1 entries- ద్రోహం noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Thai
2 entries- การกบฏ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- การขายชาติ noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Turkish
2 entries- hainlik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- ihanet noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Turkmen
2 entries- dönüklik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- haýynlyk noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Ukrainian
3 entries- держа́вна зра́да noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- держзра́да noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- зра́да noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Urdu
2 entries- خِیانَت noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- غَدّاری noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Uyghur
1 entries- ساتقۇنلۇق noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Uzbek
3 entries- sotqinlik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- xiyonat noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- xoinlik noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Volapük
1 entries- trät noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
Welsh
4 entries- brad noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- brad noun (act of treachery)
- bradwriaeth noun (crime of betraying one’s country)
- bradychiad noun (act of treachery)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
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If this be treason, make the most of it.
Source: tatoeba (657233)
Aiding and abetting the enemy is considered treason.
Source: tatoeba (669567)
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