Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who commits burglary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A felonious housebreaker; especially, one who commits robbery by breaking into a house in the night. See
burglary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary.
- noun a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thief who steals from premises.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.
The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009
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In the midst of a home robbery, a burglar is attacked by, and kills, the owner who appears animalistic.
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If your burglar is a poor Mexican, you should invite him in and see what he wants.
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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.
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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 Holland, Barbara 1999
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We have taught them that even if caught, a burglar is unlikely to be locked up.
Final Fantasy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Butt, Seriously: A hapless, yet stylin 'burglar loses his pants during the course of his crime.
Funny stuff 2007
hernesheir commented on the word burglar
US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906: Railroad telegraphers' notation meaning "Stop buying and report purchases".
January 21, 2013