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Definition 2024

high_treason

high treason

English

Noun

high treason ‎(uncountable)

Criminal disloyalty to one's country.

Usage notes

Formerly distinguished from petty treason or petit treason, which was not against the sovereign.

Translations

Criminal disloyalty to one's country

Arabic: خِيَانَة عُظْمَى f ‎(ḵiyāna ʿuẓmā)
Catalan: alta traïció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 叛國罪 (zh), 叛国罪 (zh) ‎(pànguózuì)
Czech: velezrada (cs) f, vlastizrada f
Dutch: hoogverraad (nl)
Esperanto: altperfido, ŝtatperfido
Finnish: maanpetos (fi)
French: haute trahison (fr) f
German: Hochverrat (de) m

Hungarian: felségárulás, hazaárulás (hu)
Icelandic: landráð (is) n pl
Irish: ardtréas m
Japanese: 大逆罪 ‎(たいぎゃくざい, taigyakuzai)
Latin: perduellio
Macedonian: велепредавство n ‎(veleprédavstvo)
Portuguese: alta traição f
Romanian: înaltă trădare f
Russian: госуда́рственная изме́на (ru) f ‎(gosudárstvennaja izména), изме́на Ро́дине f ‎(izména Ródine)
Spanish: alta traición f