amnesty

1. 1.

   grant a pardon to (a group of people)

   Broaderpardon

   law

Other forms of amnesty

plural

amnesties·

past tense or participle

amnestied

present participle

amnestying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amnesty

What does amnesty mean?

amnesty means "a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amnesty?

amnesty has 3 syllables: am-ne-sty. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmnəsti/.

What is another word for amnesty?

Close synonyms include pardon, pardon, free pardon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amnesty a common word?

amnesty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.