AMNESTY (amnestied)
Dictionary entry overview: What does amnesty mean?
• AMNESTY (noun)
The noun AMNESTY has 3 senses:
1. a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
2. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
3. the formal act of liberating someone
Familiarity information: AMNESTY used as a noun is uncommon.
• AMNESTY (verb)
The verb AMNESTY has 1 sense:
1. grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Familiarity information: AMNESTY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AMNESTY (noun)
Meaning:
A period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):
exemption; freedom (immunity from an obligation or duty)
Meaning:
A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
amnesty; pardon
Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):
warrant (a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Meaning:
The formal act of liberating someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
free pardon; amnesty; pardon
Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):
clemency; mercifulness; mercy (leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
• AMNESTY (verb)
Meaning:
Grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "amnesty" is one way to...):
pardon (grant a pardon to)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
