What does illegal mean?
Definitions for illegal
ɪˈli gəlil·le·gal
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Princeton's WordNet
illegaladjective
prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
"an illegal chess move"
Wiktionary
illegalnoun
An illegal immigrant.
illegalnoun
An illegal resident spy.
illegaladjective
Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
illegaladjective
Not permitted by rules
Moving a pawn backward is an illegal move in chess.
illegaladjective
Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
illegaladjective
Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
Etymology: From il- (an assimilated version of in-) + legal. In senses relating to immigration, via clipping from illegal alien or illegal immigrant.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Illegaladjective
Contrary to law.
Etymology: in and legalis, Latin.
No patent can oblige the subject against law, unless an illegal patent passed in one kingdom can bind another, and not itself. Jonathan Swift.
Webster Dictionary
Illegaladjective
not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love
Etymology: [Pref. il- not + legal: cf. F. illgal.]
Freebase
Illegal
"Illegal" is the third and final single released from Shakira's second English language studio album, Oral Fixation Vol. 2. It features celebrated Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana. The song was released right after the massive worldwide success of "Hips Don't Lie". The radio release for "Illegal" in the United States and Canada was on November 14, 2006. The music video for the song premiered on November 16, 2006 on MTV's Total Request Live and debuted the next day at #9. It became a hit in countries like Latvia, and Ukraine.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Illegal
il-lē′gal, adj. contrary to law.—v.t. Illē′galīse, to render unlawful.—n. Illegal′ity, the quality or condition of being illegal.—adv. Illē′gally.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illegal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3866
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illegal' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4792
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illegal' in Adjectives Frequency: #515
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of illegal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of illegal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of illegal in a Sentence
The problem is when one of these drugs is banned or illegal, the drug manufacturer responds by producing a number of different alternatives, it's sort of a flavor of the month.
I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.
They should know that Italy no longer wants to be an accomplice in the business of illegal immigration and therefore they will have to aim for other, non-Italian, ports.
The Democrats don't care about what their extremist immigration agenda will do to your communities, to your hospitals -- what about your hospitals and to your schools, the Democrats don't care that a flood of illegal immigration will bankrupt our country.
We are encouraged that the Trans-Pacific Partnership sets a new bar for ocean conservation measures in a trade agreement by including specific provisions to encourage sustainable fisheries management, fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, protect sharks and other key marine species, and eliminate harmful fishing subsidies.
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- غير شرعيArabic
- il·legalCatalan, Valencian
- ilegálníCzech
- illegal, rechtswidrigGerman
- άνομος, λαθρομετανάστης, έκνομος, απαγορευμένος, παράνομοςGreek
- ilegalSpanish
- ebaseaduslikEstonian
- laiton, [[laiton]] [[maahanmuuttaja]], vastainenFinnish
- illégal, sans-papiersFrench
- neamhdhleathachIrish
- ilícitoGalician
- 不法入国者, 違法, 不法Japanese
- უკანონოGeorgian
- derqanûn, yasax, qedexe, qaçax, memnûh, neqanûnîKurdish
- нелегален, противзаконски, неправилен, незаконски, незаконит, недозволен, илегаленMacedonian
- illegaal, onwettig, strafbaar, sans-papiersDutch
- ilegalPortuguese
- ilegal, nelegalRomanian
- [[нелега́льный]] [[иммигра́нт]], нелега́льный, неве́рный, неправоме́рный, непра́вильный, нелега́лка, [[нелегальный, нелега́л, незако́нныйRussian
- lagstridig, olaglig, illegalSwedish
- haramuSwahili
- yasa dışıTurkish
- bất hợp phápVietnamese
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