Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who commits burglary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A felonious housebreaker; especially, one who commits robbery by breaking into a house in the night. See burglary.
Wiktionary
- n. A thief who steals from premises.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One guilty of the crime of burglary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
Etymologies
- Anglo-Norman burgler (alteration of burgesur, probably from Old French burg, borough) and Medieval Latin burgulātor (alteration of burgātor, from burgāre, to commit burglary in, from Late Latin burgus, fortified town), both of Germanic origin; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.”
“In the midst of a home robbery, a burglar is attacked by, and kills, the owner who appears animalistic.”
“If your burglar is a poor Mexican, you should invite him in and see what he wants.”
“But as far as zeroing in on trigger locks and passing what I call a burglar protection act where we would actually expect the American, prudent citizen to say, excuse me as you're burglarizing my house.”
“I know a capable young woman who carries with her everywhere a package of what she calls burglar's tools, in case she needs to fix her transmission en route or finds a piano in want of tuning.”
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“We have taught them that even if caught, a burglar is unlikely to be locked up.”
“Butt, Seriously: A hapless, yet stylin 'burglar loses his pants during the course of his crime.”
“A burglar is caught while raiding a research/lab home, and they decide to use him for an experiment which results in his becoming invisible.”
“The risk of being murdered in your home by a burglar is still statistically low - but it is five times greater for over-75s and ten times greater for over 85s.”
“The burglar is then followed by a set of bloody footprints, first following 5 feet behind him, then getting closer.”
Lists
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words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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