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larcenies

larcenies is the plural of larceny.

Meaning of larceny

Noun

larceny (countable and uncountable, plural larcenies)

  1. (uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
    • “Why are you walking around,” inquired Oedipa, “with your eyes closed, Metzger?” “Larceny,” Metzger said, “maybe they'll need a lawyer.”1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37
    Synonyms:
    theft, robbery
  2. (countable) An individual instance of such a taking.
    • That young man already has four assaults, a DUI, and a larceny on his record.

Phrases with larcenies

Questions about larcenies

What is larcenies the plural of?
Larcenies is the plural of larceny.

Words near larcenies in the dictionary

  1. larbs
  2. LARC
  3. larcener
  4. larceners
  5. larcenic
  6. larcenies
  7. larcenious
  8. larcenist
  9. larcenists
  10. larcenous
  11. larcenously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: larcenies (page history and authors); larceny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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