robber

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈrɑbɚ/ UK /ˈrɒbə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who steals from another by force or threat

The masked robber fled with the contents of the till.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who steals from... thief bandit brigandmuggerplunderer marauder raider

Opposites

victim

Word family

Related forms rob robbery robbing

Etymology

From Middle English robbere, from Old French robere, from rober ('to rob, plunder'), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną ('to rob, steal').

rober xno *raubōną Proto-Germanic

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# robber

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈrɑbɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈrɒbə/

## Meanings
1. a person who steals from another by force or threat

## Examples
- The masked robber fled with the contents of the till.

## Synonyms
- thief
- bandit
- brigand
- mugger
- plunderer
- marauder
- raider

## Antonyms
- victim

## Related Forms
- rob
- robbery
- robbing

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rober
- Root: *raubōną

## Etymology
From Middle English robbere, from Old French robere, from rober ('to rob, plunder'), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną ('to rob, steal').

## AI Etymology
Robber comes from Middle English robbere, from Old French robere, from rober ('to rob, plunder'), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *raubōną ('to rob, steal'). The historical chain includes Old French rober and Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Older glosses in the chain include "to rob, plunder" and "to rob, steal", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, robber is best read as borrowing, yielding an English noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun, with the sense "a person who steals from another by force or threat". related forms include rob, robbery, and robbing. The result is an English noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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