Dictionary entry details
• OFFENCE (noun)
Meaning:
The action of attacking an enemy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
offensive; offence; offense
Hypernyms ("offence" is a kind of...):
military operation; operation (activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offence"):
push back; rollback (the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw)
dirty war (an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims)
counteroffensive (a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force)
Meaning:
The team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
offence; offense
Hypernyms ("offence" is a kind of...):
squad; team (a cooperative unit)
Antonym:
defence ((sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring)
Meaning:
A feeling of anger caused by being offended
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
umbrage; offense; offence
Context example:
he took offence at my question
Hypernyms ("offence" is a kind of...):
anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
Meaning:
A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
offensive activity; offense; discourtesy; offence
Hypernyms ("offence" is a kind of...):
behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings (manner of acting or controlling yourself)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offence"):
derision; ridicule (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)
indelicacy (an impolite act or expression)
insolence (an offensive disrespectful impudent act)
affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)
presumption (a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming)
rebuff; slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))
Meaning:
A crime less serious than a felony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
infraction; misdemeanor; misdemeanour; violation; infringement; offense; offence
Hypernyms ("offence" is a kind of...):
crime; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offence"):
breach of the peace; disorderly behavior; disorderly conduct; disturbance of the peace (any act of molesting or interrupting or hindering or disquieting or agitating or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled)
false pretence; false pretense ((law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation)
indecent exposure; public nudity (vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place)
bearing false witness; lying under oath; perjury (criminal offense of making false statements under oath)
sedition (an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government)
