ROBIN HOOD

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• ROBIN HOOD (noun)
  The noun ROBIN HOOD has 1 sense:

1. legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor

  Familiarity information: ROBIN HOOD used as a noun is very rare.

• ROBIN HOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood's Bay and back.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had a capital "severe tea" at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in the neighbourhood of Whitby.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)