bandit
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), from Late Latin bannire (“to proclaim”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bandit (plural bandits)
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- An outlaw.
- One who cheats others.
- (military) An enemy aircraft.
- (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
Synonyms
- (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
- (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
- (one who cheats others): cheater
Derived terms
Translations
one who robs others
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an outlaw
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one who cheats others
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Verb
bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)
- (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
- 1921, Munsey's Magazine (volume 74, page 38)
- First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.
- 1937, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 160, page 7)
- As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.
- 1921, Munsey's Magazine (volume 74, page 38)
References
- ^ Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bandit m (plural bandits)
- bandit
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »
- "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
Noun
bandit (first-person possessive banditku, second-person possessive banditmu, third-person possessive banditnya)
Norman
Etymology
Noun
bandit m (plural bandits)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)
Declension
Declension of bandit
References
- “bandit” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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