Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word vice. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in vice.
Definitions and meaning of vice
vice
Pronunciation
(UK, US) IPA(key): /vaɪs/
Rhymes: -aɪs
Homophone: vise
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishvice, from Old Frenchvice, from Latinvitium(“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old Englishunþēaw.
Noun
vice (pluralvices)
Bad or immoral behaviour.
(law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
(law enforcement, slang)Clipping of vice squad.
A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "bad habit"):virtue
Derived terms
by vice of
inherent vice
stable vice
vice clause
vice girl
vice squad
Related terms
Translations
See also
habit
Etymology 2
See vise.
Noun
vice (pluralvices)
(UK)Alternative spelling of vise(“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”)
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
(architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
(obsolete) A grip or grasp.
Translations
Verb
vice (third-person singular simple presentvices, present participlevicing, simple past and past participleviced)
Alternative spelling of vise(“to hold or squeeze with a vice”)
Etymology 3
From Latinvice(“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare Frenchfois(“time”) and Spanishvez(“time, turn”).
Adjective
vice (not comparable)
in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
Derived terms
Preposition
vice
(dated) instead of, in place of, versus (sense 2)
Usage notes
While rare in modern standard English, this usage still appears among members of the United States military. This usage is common in informal rail transport contexts in the United Kingdom.
Statements such as "vice Jones, who had resigned" may be abbreviated "vice Jones, resigned"
Noun
vice (pluralvices)
One who acts in place of a superior.
c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion
The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]
Further reading
vice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
ICEV, cive
Esperanto
Adverb
vice
in rows
Related terms
vico
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Frenchvice, from Old Frenchvice, borrowed from Latinvitium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vis/
Homophones: vis, visse, vissent, visses
Rhymes: -is
Noun
vicem (pluralvices)
vice(bad habit)
Derived terms
See also
défaut
péché
Further reading
“vice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishvice-, Frenchvice-, Germanvize-, Italianvice-, Russianви́це-(více-), Spanishvice-.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈvi.t͡se/
Preposition
vice
instead, instead of
Derived terms
References
Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, page 211, 408, 409
“vice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“vice”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
vice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Alternative forms
vyce, vyse, vijs, wise, vise, wyce, vyhs
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Frenchvice, visse, from Latinvitium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈviːs(ə)/
Noun
vice (pluralvices)
A fault or imperfection; a negative quality or attribute of something:
A bad habit or tendency that one has; a negative human behaviour.
A mistake; a fault due to deficience in knowledge or reasoning.
(rare) An imperfection or blemish in one's visage or look.
Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:
A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.
A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.
A sickness, disease or malady; a deleterious process effecting something.
Related terms
viciate
vicious
viciously
viciousnesse
Descendants
English: vice
Scots: vice
References
“vīce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old Frenchvice, borrowed from Latinvitium.
Noun
vicem (pluralvices)
vice(bad habit)
Descendants
French: vice
Portuguese
Noun
vicem or f by sense (pluralvices)
used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-
Slovene
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʋìːt͡sɛ/, /ʋíːt͡sɛ/
Noun
vīcef pl
purgatory
Inflection
Spanish
Noun
vicem or f by sense (pluralvice)
vice(second in command)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
vice (not comparable)
vice, second in rank, deputy, stand-in, acting
Related terms
vicedirektör
vicekonung
vicepresident
vicevärd
vice versa
Yola
Etymology
From Middle Englishvoys, from Anglo-Normanvoiz, voys, veys, from Latinvōx.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /viːs/
Noun
vice
voice
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75