robber

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rob=ber
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

robber, n. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"Some roving robber calling to his fellows."  [1913 Webster]

Robber crab. (Zoöl.) (a) A purse crab. (b) Any hermit crab. -- Robber fly. (Zoöl.) Same as Hornet fly, under Hornet. -- Robber gull (Zoöl.), a jager gull.

Syn. -- Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler; brigang; freebooter; pirate. See Thief.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

robber, n. a person who commits robbery.

Idiom

robber baron
1 a plundering feudal lord.
2 an unscrupulous plutocrat.

Etymology

ME f. AF & OF (as ROB)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

robber

n. A candid man of affairs.
It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. "Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues." Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. "That," he said, "is the story."

THESAURUS

robber

bandit, bank robber, body snatcher, booster, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, bushranger, cat burglar, cat man, chicken thief, con man, corsair, cracksman, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, footpad, freebooter, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, highway robber, highwayman, hijacker, holdup man, housebreaker, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, mugger, peculator, petty thief, pickpocket, pilferer, pirate, poacher, privateer, prowler, purloiner, raffles, rifler, road agent, sandbagger, scrounger, second-story man, shoplifter, sneak thief, stealer, stickup man, swindler, thief, train robber, white-collar thief, yegg

ROGET THESAURUS

robber

Thief

N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.