law offender vs felon

law offender and felon both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
law offender	Yes	No	No	No
felon	Yes	No	No	No

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

law offender: someone who violates the law
felon: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of law offender include criminal, crook, malefactor, outlaw.

law offender (noun)	felon (noun)
someone who violates the law	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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