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BRIGAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brigand mean?
• BRIGAND (noun)
The noun BRIGAND has 1 sense:
1. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
Familiarity information: BRIGAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bandit; brigand
Hypernyms ("brigand" is a kind of...):
stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)
Context examples
On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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