Word Meanings - THIEF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 death. Chaucer. Where thieves break through and steal. Matt. vi. 19. 2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Bp. Hall. Thief catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Syn. -- Robber; pilferer. -- Thief, Robber. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force. Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night. Shak. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THIEF)

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

Related words: (words related to THIEF)

• 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.