public enemy

English

Noun

public enemy (plural public enemies)

1. A criminal widely regarded as dangerous or antisocial.

Derived terms

• public enemy number one

Translations

public enemy

• Bulgarian: обще́ствен враг m (obštéstven vrag)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公敵 / 公敌 (zh) (gōngdí)

• Finnish: yhteiskunnan vihollinen
• French: ennemi public (fr) m, ennemie publique (fr) f
• German: Staatsfeind (de) m, Staatsfeindin (de) f
• Greek: δημοτικός εχθρός m (dimotikós echthrós), δημόσιος εχθρός m (dimósios echthrós)
• Italian: nemico pubblico m, nemica pubblica f
• Japanese: 公敵 (こうてき, kōteki)
• Korean: 공적(公敵) (ko) (gongjeok)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folkefiende m

  Nynorsk: folkefiende m

• Polish: wróg publiczny m
• Romanian: inamic public m, pericol public n
• Russian: враг госуда́рства m (vrag gosudárstva, literally “enemy of the state”)
• Spanish: enemigo público m, enemiga pública f

Further reading

• public enemy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “public enemy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.