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# robber

«robber» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who steals from a person or place, often using…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a robber, robbers)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who steals from a person or place, often using force or threats, like a bank robber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and games («cops and robbers») robbers are the villains; a highway robber stopped coaches on the road. In safety lessons, if a robber asks for your phone or bag, give it — your safety matters more than things.

### examples

- The robbers escaped with bags of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x1)
- The police caught the bank robber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x2)
- We played cops and robbers in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x3)
- Robin Hood was a robber who helped the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x4)
- A robber took her bag at the bus stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x5)
- The highway robber shouted «Stand and deliver!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robber/#x6)

### note

Robber = robs (often with force); thief = steals, maybe secretly; burglar = breaks into buildings. Verb: rob (robbed, robbing).

### In the corpora

- [Later pharaohs were buried in hidden rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings, because robbers could easily find the pyramids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/14/)
- [Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.934/)
- [Is this house, whereupon My name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.212/)
- [She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.676/)
- [The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, in whatsoever God bringeth into their hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.288/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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