conspirator vs felon

conspirator and felon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conspirator	Yes	No	No	No
felon	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, felon is a hypernym of conspirator; that is, felon is a word with a broader meaning than conspirator:

conspirator: a member of a conspiracy
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of conspirator include criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

conspirator (noun)	felon (noun)
a member of a conspiracy	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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