penalty
Meaning of penalty
noun
- A legal sentence.
The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.
Information about penalty
- It is a name.
- The plural form of penalty is: penalties.
- Languages in which penalty is used:
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Hyphenation of penalty
penalty
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- penalty is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
penalty synonyms
Meaning punishment:
Meaning :
Translation of penalty
- German: Strafe, Elfmeter
- Portuguese: pena, multa, pênalti, penalty, penálti
- French: peine, penalty, péno, pénalité
- Spanish: pena, penal, penalti
- Italian: pena, rigore, penalità
Anagrams of penalty
Words that rhyme with penalty
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