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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
offence is a noun meaning "the action of attacking an enemy". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for offence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.