robber

CEFRA2

/ˈɹɒb.ə(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who steals money or property by force or threat.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An animal who robs.

Examples

  • The robber attacked her on a back street.

  • The robber bashed her head in.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A person who robs.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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.