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# brigand

«brigand» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bandit or robber, often one who lives in the hills and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (brigands)

### meaning for a pupil

A brigand is a bandit or robber, often one who lives in the hills and attacks travellers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brigand/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the villain of an adventure tale who meets the hero on a lonely road or in the hills

### examples

- The brigand jumped out from the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brigand/#x1)
- "Wait one moment!" gasped the brigand painfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brigand/#x2)
- The travellers were robbed by a brigand in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brigand/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brigand» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brigand/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.