culprit
Meaning of culprit
noun
- a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.
the car's front nearside door had been smashed in but the culprits had fled
late 17th century (originally in the formula Culprit, how will you be tried?, said by the Clerk of the Crown to a prisoner pleading not guilty): perhaps from a misinterpretation of the written abbreviation cul. prist for Anglo-Norman French Culpable: prest d'averrer notre bille ‘(You are) guilty: (We are) ready to prove our indictment’; in later use influenced by Latin culpa ‘fault, blame’.
Information about culprit
- It is a name.
- The plural form of culprit is: culprits.
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Hyphenation of culprit
cul-prit
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- culprit is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
culprit synonyms
Meaning perpetrator:
Meaning a person who commits an illegal act:
Meaning a person who behaves illegally or dishonestly; an offender:
Meaning a person who has committed a crime:
Meaning a person who commits a crime or some other wrong:
Meaning a person who breaks the law:
Meaning a person who has committed a felony:
Meaning a delinquent person:
Meaning an unprincipled person:
Meaning a person who transgresses against divine law by committing an immoral act or acts:
Meaning a villain or criminal in a book, film, etc:
Meaning a person who is dishonest or a criminal:
Meaning a person who has done something wrong or unlawful:
Translation of culprit
Words that rhyme with culprit
dimaprit, belesprit, bowsprit, esprit, sprit
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