first-degree murder

English

Noun

first-degree murder (countable and uncountable, plural first-degree murders)

1. (law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form considered by law to be the most serious; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves premeditation, or the choice of victim or other circumstances being regarded as especially blameworthy.
2. (law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of first-degree murder.

Synonyms

• murder in the first degree
• murder one

Hyponyms

• felony murder

Related terms

• murder
• second-degree murder

Translations

premeditated or especially serious murder

• Afrikaans: moord (af)
• Bulgarian: предуми́шлено уби́йство n (predumíšleno ubíjstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一級謀殺罪 / 一级谋杀罪 (yījí móushāzuì)

• Danish: mord (da) n
• Finnish: murha (fi)
• French: assassinat (fr) m, meurtre au premier degré (fr) m (Canada, law)
• Hungarian: előre megfontolt szándékkal elkövetett emberölés
• Norwegian: overlagt drap
• Polish: morderstwo pierwszego stopnia n
• Portuguese: homicídio doloso premeditado m
• Russian: предумы́шленное уби́йство n (predumýšlennoje ubíjstvo) (premeditated murder), уби́йство пе́рвой сте́пени n (ubíjstvo pérvoj stépeni) (foreign context)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• first-degree murder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “first-degree murder”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.