Word Meanings - BRIGAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LL. brigans light-armed soldier fr. brigare to strive, contend, fr. briga quarrel; prob. of German origin, and akin 1. A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. 2. A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one

Additional info about word: BRIGAND

LL. brigans light-armed soldier fr. brigare to strive, contend, fr. briga quarrel; prob. of German origin, and akin 1. A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. 2. A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRIGAND)

• Robber
• Thief
• depredator
• plunderer
• freebooter
• brigand
• pirate
• highwayman
• footpad

Related words: (words related to BRIGAND)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• FREEBOOTER
  One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and
• BRIGANDAGE
  Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
• THIEF
  thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• DEPREDATOR
  One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
• BRIGANDISH
  Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
• BRIGANDINE
  A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.
• FOOTPAD
  A highwayman or robber on foot.
• BRIGANDISM
  Brigandage.
• THIEFLY
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
• BRIGAND
  LL. brigans light-armed soldier fr. brigare to strive, contend, fr. briga quarrel; prob. of German origin, and akin 1. A light-armed, irregular foot soldier. 2. A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one
• HIGHWAYMAN
  One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
• ROBBER
  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. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton. Syn. -- Thief; depredator; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; rifler;
• FREEBOOTERY
  The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.
• PIRATE
  1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor. 2. An
• DEPREDATORY
  Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
• ASPIRATE
  To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant. (more info) or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf.
• SEA THIEF
  A pirate. Drayton.
• WATER THIEF
  A pirate. Shak.
• SEA ROBBER
  A pirate; a sea rover.