vice
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Anglo-Norman < Old French < Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”).
Noun[edit]
vice (plural vices)
- A bad habit.
- Smoking is a vice, not a virtue.
- (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
Antonyms[edit]
- (bad habit): virtue
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
bad habit
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crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs
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Etymology 2[edit]
From French vis (“screw, winding stairs”), from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vitis (“vine”); akin to English withy.
Alternative forms[edit]
- vise (US)
Noun[edit]
vice (plural vices)
Translations[edit]
screw apparatus
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Etymology 3[edit]
From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis.
Adjective[edit]
vice (no comparative or superlative)
- in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
Derived terms[edit]
Preposition[edit]
vice
- instead of, in place of
- A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
Esperanto[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vice
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Ido[edit]
Preposition[edit]
vice
Adverb[edit]
vice
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
vice m, f (invariable)
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Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vice
Noun[edit]
vice
- ablative singular of vicis
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: vice, as in "vice president", "vice admiral"
- French: vice
- Ido: vice
- Italian: vice
- Swedish: vice
Noun[edit]
vīce
- vocative singular of vīcus
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
vice m (plural vices)
- vice (bad habit)
Slovene[edit]
Noun[edit]
vice f pl
Declension[edit]
Declension of vice (feminine, a-stem)
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
vice
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