different between traitorous vs treason

English

Alternative forms

• traitourous (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English trayterous, traytrous, (also Middle English traytours, treytours), from Anglo-Norman traiterous, traitourous and Old French traitros.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?t??r?s, IPA^(key): /?t?e?t???s/

Adjective

traitorous (comparative more traitorous, superlative most traitorous)

1. Characteristic of a traitor; disloyal.
2. (law) Constituting treason; treasonable or seditious.

Synonyms

• traitorsome
• treacherous

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English tresoun, treison, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”), from trair, or from Latin tr?diti?nem, accusative of tr?diti? (“a giving up, handing over, surrender, delivery, tradition”), from tr?d? (“give up, hand over, deliver over, betray”, verb), from tr?ns- (“over, across”) +? d? (“give”). Doublet of tradition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?.z?n/
• Rhymes: -i?z?n

Noun

treason (countable and uncountable, plural treasons)

1. The crime of betraying one’s own country.
2. An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.

Synonyms

• betrayal
• perfidiousness
• perfidy
• treacherousness
• treachery

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• sedition

References

• treason at OneLook Dictionary Search
• treason in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• treason in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Santore, Senator, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, rotanes, seatron, senator, tenoras

Middle English

Noun

treason

1. Alternative form of tresoun