robber

Noun

Meaning

One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pillager pirate thief plunderer freebooter raider corsair buccaneer hood liberator highwayman marauder bandit vandal viking
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Antonyms

bobby jonah sergeant constable sherlock bloodhound
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Hypernyms

thief stealer

Hyponyms

mugger bank robber

Related terms

rob robbery

Phrases with the word

armed robber thickskin robber frog

Examples

AB5, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is based on an outdated caricature of the workplace in which employers are rich robber barons and workers can only avoid exploitation by joining labor unions. Source: Internet

Accra, Feb. 25, GNA – The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested Mohammed Buzu a suspected notorious armed robber from his hide-out at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. Source: Internet

Alarmed by the persistent struggle of the likes of Eskendir and the Ethiopian people at large, westerners removed the robber rulers of the TPLF and replaced them with Abiyote Ahmed and his cadre friends. Source: Internet

Along with the concept of ships, Seafarers also introduces the notion of the pirate, which acts as a waterborne robber which steals from nearby ships (similar to how the robber steals from nearby settlements). Source: Internet

A robber was detained after he allegedly held up a woman at knifepoint while she was jogging, in Queensburgh, last week. Source: Internet

Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

robbed robbed the bank Robbens robber baron robber crab robber fly