different between penalty vs penalties

English

Alternative forms

• pœnalty (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French pénalité

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n?lti/
• Hyphenation: pen?al?ty

Noun

penalty (plural penalties)

1. A legal sentence.

2. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?

3. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
4. In sports
   1. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
   2. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.

Synonyms

• punition
• punishment
• sentence

Derived terms

Related terms

• penal
• penality (rare)
• penalize

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (balanti)
• ? Spanish: penalti

Translations

See also

• free kick

Anagrams

• a-plenty, aplenty, netplay

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pe?nal?ty

Noun

penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)

1. penalty kick

French

Alternative forms

• pénalty

Etymology

Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.nal.ti/

Noun

penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)

1. (sports) penalty, penalty kick

Further reading

• “penalty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• pœnalties (archaic)

Noun

penalties

1. plural of penalty

Noun

penalties pl (plural only)

1. (informal) A penalty shootout.

Anagrams

• Palestine, antisleep, tapelines

French

Noun

penalties m

1. plural of penalty

Anagrams

• Palestine, patelines, pénalités