Meanings
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noun
The crime of breaking into a building in order to steal.
They reported the burglary to the police the next morning.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
burglaries
Derived forms
antiburglary
Etymology
From New Latin burglaria. Equivalent to burglar + -y. Displaced native Old English hūsbryċe (literally “house-breach”).
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