Robber Meaning
/ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who robs.
nounAn animal who robs.
Sentence Examples
The robber attacked her on a back street.
The robber bashed her head in.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The police caught the ____ who stole the money from the safe.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ was caught on camera entering the shop and was identified by police within hours.
Word Origin & History
Inherited from Middle English robbour, robbere, either directly taken from or from a calque of Old French robeor. Equivalent to rob + -er. Compare reaver (“robber, plunderer”), a native English word derived from Proto-Germanic *raubārijaz that is ultimately of more or less the same composition as robber. And compare rover (“a pirate”), another word of the same composition.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I remember as a boy in my native land the bad name the common magpie (Pica caudata) had as a destroyer of chickens, and a robber of nests."
— 1907, Frederick William D'Evelyn, “Slaughter of Blue Jays”, in The Condor, volume 9, number 2:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police caught the ____ who stole the money from the safe.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ was caught on camera entering the shop and was identified by police within hours.