noun
Meaning 1
A legal sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
penalty
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: punishment, punition, sentence
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
In sports:
A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
In sports:
A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
Examples
- A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the act of punishing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: punishment, penalization, penalisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social control
Narrower terms: castigation, chastisement, corporal punishment, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, discipline, correction, economic strangulation, imprisonment, music, medicine, self-punishment, stick, penance, self-mortification, self-abasement
noun
Meaning 8
(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: handicap
Narrower terms: game misconduct
noun
Meaning 9
the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- neglected his health and paid the penalty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: reward
Broader terms: disadvantage
noun
Meaning 10
a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: payment
Narrower terms: retribution, requital, forfeit, forfeiture, fine, mulct, amercement
History
Etymology
From Middle French pénalité, from pénal, from Latin poenālis, from poena, borrowing of Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ), from Proto-Hellenic *kwoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kwoynéh2, comprising *kwey- + *-néh2.
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: պատիժ (patiž) — legal sentence
- Azerbaijani: cəza — legal sentence
- Belarusian: пакара́нне (pakaránnje) — legal sentence
- Belarusian: ка́ра (kára) — legal sentence
- Bulgarian: наказа́ние (nakazánie) — legal sentence
- Bulgarian: са́нкция (sánkcija) — legal sentence
- Cornish: spal — legal sentence
- Danish: straf — legal sentence
- Dutch: straf — legal sentence
- Finnish: rangaistus — legal sentence
- French: penalisation — legal sentence
- Galician: pena — legal sentence
- Galician: punición — legal sentence
- German: Strafe — legal sentence
- Greek: κύρωση (kýrosi) — legal sentence
- Greek: ποινή (poiní) — legal sentence
- Greek: τιμωρία (timoría) — legal sentence
- Hungarian: büntetés — legal sentence
- Icelandic: hegning — legal sentence
- Irish: pionós — legal sentence
- Japanese: 刑 (kei) — legal sentence
- Japanese: 刑罰 (keibatsu) — legal sentence
- Korean: 처벌 (cheobeol) — legal sentence
- Korean: 형벌 (hyeongbeol) — legal sentence
- Latgalian: struope — legal sentence
- Latin: multa — legal sentence
- Latvian: sods — legal sentence
- Lithuanian: bausmė — legal sentence
- Macedonian: ка́зна (kázna) — legal sentence
- Malay: hukuman — legal sentence
- Malayalam: ശിക്ഷ (śikṣa) — legal sentence
- Norwegian Bokmål: straff — legal sentence
- Norwegian Nynorsk: straff — legal sentence
- Polish: kara — legal sentence
- Portuguese: pena — legal sentence
- Romanian: penalizare — legal sentence
- Romanian: pedeapsă — legal sentence
- Russian: наказа́ние (nakazánije) — legal sentence
- Russian: взыска́ние (vzyskánije) — legal sentence
- Russian: штраф (štraf) — legal sentence
- Scottish Gaelic: peanas — legal sentence
- Spanish: pena — legal sentence
- Swedish: straff — legal sentence
- Tagalog: parusa — legal sentence
- Ukrainian: покара́ння (pokaránnja) — legal sentence
- Ukrainian: ка́ра (kára) — legal sentence
- Walloon: poenne — legal sentence
- Walloon: poenålté — legal sentence
- Welsh: cosb — legal sentence
- Arabic: جَزَاء (jazāʔ) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Armenian: տուգանք (tugankʻ) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Belarusian: штраф (štraf) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Bulgarian: гло́ба (glóba) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Catalan: càstig — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Cebuano: silot — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Chinese Mandarin: 懲罰 /惩罚 (chéngfá) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Cornish: spal — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Dutch: straf — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Finnish: rangaistus — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- French: peine — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Galician: castigo — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- German: Strafe — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Greek: αντίτιμο (antítimo) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Greek: τιμωρία (timoría) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Hindi: दण्ड (daṇḍ) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Hindi: सज़ा (sazā) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Hungarian: büntetés — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Hungarian: bírság — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Icelandic: hegning — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Irish: pionós — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Italian: penalità — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Japanese: 罰 (batsu) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Japanese: 懲らしめ (korasime) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Japanese: 懲罰 (chōbatsu) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Japanese: 仕置き (shioki) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Kikuyu: ihera — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Korean: 형벌 (hyeongbeol) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Korean: 징벌 (jingbeol) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Macedonian: ка́зна (kázna) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Macedonian: гло́ба (glóba) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Malayalam: ശിക്ഷ (śikṣa) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Norwegian Bokmål: straff — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Norwegian Nynorsk: straff — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Plautdietsch: Strof — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Polish: kara — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Portuguese: penalidade — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Romanian: pedeapsă — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Russian: штраф (štraf) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Scottish Gaelic: peanas — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Sikkimese: ཀྱོམ (kyom) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Spanish: castigo — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Swahili: penalti — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Swahili: faini — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Swedish: straff — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Tagalog: bayad-sala — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Tagalog: parusa — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Ottoman Turkish: جزا (ceza) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Ukrainian: штраф (štraf) — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Vietnamese: trừng phạt — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Welsh: cosb — punishment for violating rules of procedure
- Finnish: korvaus — finance: payment for early withdrawal
- German: Pönale — finance: payment for early withdrawal
- German: Vertragsstrafe — finance: payment for early withdrawal
- Malayalam: പിഴ (piḻa) — finance: payment for early withdrawal
- Bulgarian: наказа́ние (nakazánie) — punishment in ice hockey
- Esperanto: penalo — punishment in ice hockey
- Finnish: rangaistus — punishment in ice hockey
- Finnish: jäähy — punishment in ice hockey
- German: Strafe — punishment in ice hockey
- Irish: pionós — punishment in ice hockey
- Macedonian: пена́л (penál) — punishment in ice hockey
- Russian: булли́т (bullít) — punishment in ice hockey
- Russian: штрафно́й бросо́к (štrafnój brosók) — punishment in ice hockey
- Swedish: utvisning — punishment in ice hockey
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