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Definition: Bandit |
BanditNoun1. An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bandit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
Etymology: Bandit \Ban"dit\, noun; plural Bandits, or Banditti. [Italian bandito outlaw, past participle of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, Late Latin expression bandire, bannire. See Ban an edict, and compare to Banish.]. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | An outlaw. See ALDERMAN. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Bandit plural banditti or bandits , properly means outlaw (Italian, bandito, banished, men pronounced "banned"). As these outlaws very often became robbers, the term soon came to signify banded highwaymen. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | A mobile attempting to use an invalid or unauthorised mobile telephone number or operating method. Source: European Union. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Bandit. This word has two plural forms, bandits and banditti. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A criminal is a person who has committed crimes. Criminals can be caught by the police, tried by the courts and if convicted receive punishment such as a term in prison or death.Matters related to criminal behavior in society are studied in the field of sociology on the sub-field of criminology, and a person who studies this is called a criminologist. Psychological assessment of criminals is studied by psychologists.
The term "criminal" is sometimes used as a derogatory accusation of a person when viewing an act attributed to him/her as dangerous or destructive towards other people, or property. However, legally, in almost all jurisdictions, it is acceptable that a person is not guilty until convicted, thus may not be called a "criminal" until proven guilty.
See also law, crime, punishment, deterrence, prison, war criminal.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Criminal."
Synonym: BanditSynonym: brigand (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier; piqueerer, pickeerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man. |
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Crosswords: Bandit |
| English words defined with "bandit": Bandits, Banditti ♦ Miquelet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bandit": story ♦ Yacoub ebn Laith. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bandit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (bandit, brigand, gangster, gorilla, gun, gunman, mosstrooper, outlaw, picaroon, reaver, reiver, rover, thief, thug), Danish (bandit), French (bandit, brigand, footpad, freebooter, gang, gangster, mugger, robber), German (badman, bandit, brigand, bushranger, bushwhacker, desperado, outlaw, rogue, scoundrel), Indonesian (bandit, blackguard, gangster), Romanian (bandit, bravo, brigand, gangster, highwayman, murderer, ruffian, villain), Serbo-Croatian (bandit), Swedish (bandit, desperado, gun, gunman, thug). |
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Screenplays | This here my idea of an ass bandit. Wait til the girls get a look at you scrotum head (Officer and a Gentleman, An; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) Fearless Bandit, empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
Lyrics | Brat your the funk Bandit and they can't handle it (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat) Kissing like a bandit (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Boys and the Bandit (1972) Box Car Bandit (1956) Bandit Island (1953) The Lady and the Bandit (1951) On demande un bandit (1950) | |
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 | William H. Taft gesturing to Woodrow Wilson to come look over a fence at a raging Mexican bandit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Uncle Sam beating off "dope peddler", "bandit", and "white slaver" vultures from brood of the vulture, "prohibition". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bandit rocks" by Radek Siechowicz Commentary: "Bandit rocks in the Beskidy mountains." |
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E. M. Cioran | Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He looks like a bandit. |
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Economic History | Nicaragua | The rural zones, particularly the mountainous north and central Nicaragua, continue to experience some violence (mostly criminal acts committed by bandit groups derived from re-armed political groups). (references) |
Human Rights | Haiti | On June 27, inhabitants of the village of Latiboliere, near the town of Jeremie, decapitated a suspected bandit. (references) |
Cameroon | On February 27, the BLI based in Maroua reportedly arrested and executed Hamadou Kadri alias Hamadou Touche, a suspected bandit. (references) | |
Political Economy | Madagascar | The gendarmerie has primary responsibility for security except in major cities and is assisted in some areas by regular army units in operations against bandit gangs and cattle thieves. (references) |
Travel | Kenya | Due to increased bandit activity, air travel is the recommended means of transportation when visiting any of the coastal resorts north of Malindi. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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| "Bandit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.33% of the time. "Bandit" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.33% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bandit": bandit-like, bandit-style. | |
Ending with "bandit": robber-bandit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
the bandit | 481 | bandit river | 26 |
smokey and the bandit | 378 | suzuki bandit 400 | 25 |
rx bandit | 273 | skoal bandit | 24 |
suzuki bandit | 216 | bandit rx tab | 23 |
bike bandit | 154 | traxxas bandit | 23 |
bikini bandit | 121 | rocket power beach bandit | 23 |
morganna the kissing bandit | 102 | bandit phoenix rising | 23 |
quad city river bandit | 88 | bandit card post | 23 |
suzuki bandit 1200 | 60 | bandit sign | 22 |
vanguard bandit | 59 | bandit soundtrack | 22 |
bandit lyrics rx | 58 | bandit queen | 21 |
time bandit | 49 | bandit golf course | 20 |
bandit 1200 | 47 | bandit smokey soundtrack | 20 |
suzuki bandit 600 | 46 | bandit ear | 20 |
bandit trans am | 45 | bandit lure | 19 |
bandit jing king | 45 | bmx bandit | 19 |
the kissing bandit | 37 | brush bandit | 19 |
smokey the bandit trans am | 27 | bandit butthole | 18 |
600 bandit | 27 | 400 bandit | 18 |
bandit texarkana | 26 | one arm bandit | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bandit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bandiet. (various references) | |
Albanian | bandit (brigand, gangster, gorilla, gun, gunman, mosstrooper, outlaw, picaroon, reaver, reiver, rover, thief, thug), gangster (gangster, mobster, mug). (various references) | |
Arabic | لص (brigand, burglar, creep, housebreaker, picklock, robber, thief, yegg), قاطع طريق (brigand, gangster, mugger, thug). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бандит (brigand, bush-ranger, bushwhacker, butch, hijacker, hold-up-man, mosstrooper, rough, tough). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盜 (a thief, plunder, rob, robber, steal), 土匪 , 匪盗 (Bandits), 匪徒 (gangster), 匪 , 強盜 (robber), 寇 . (various references) | |
Czech | banditi, bandita, gangster (gangsman, gangster). (various references) | |
Danish | bandit. (various references) | |
Dutch | struikrover, bandiet. (various references) | |
Esperanto | bandito. (various references) | |
Farsi | قطاع الطریق , سارق مسلح , راهزن (Brigand, Robber). (various references) | |
Finnish | rosvo (brigand, robber), laiton matkapuhelin. (various references) | |
French | bandit. (various references) | |
Frisian | bandyt. (various references) | |
German | Bandit (badman, brigand, bushranger, bushwhacker, desperado, outlaw, rogue, scoundrel), räuber (brigand, bruiser, highwayman, hijacker, marauder, predator, raider, robber, robbers), Gangster (gangster, gangsters, gunman, hood, hoodlum, mobster, racketeer, raider, thug). (various references) | |
Greek | ληστήσ (brigand, depredator, footpad, gunman, highwayman, piccaroon, prowler, robber), ληστής (mugger, robber). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שודד (brigand, marauder, marooner, robber). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bandita (brigand, desperado, gangsman, goon, Gunnel, high-binder, hold-up man, ruffian, thug, toughie, toughy), útonálló (bandolero, basher, brigand, footpad, highwayman, hijacker, outrider, ruffian, toughie). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berandal (gangster, rascal, scoundrel), bandit (blackguard, gangster), bajak (plow), penyamun, penjahat (criminal, delinquent, desperado, felon, gangster, scum, tough, villain). (various references) | |
Irish | tóraí, meirleach. (various references) | |
Italian | bandito (brigand, desperado, gangster, gunman, highwayman, outlaw, raider, ruffian), brigante (brigand). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 山賊 (brigand). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞくと (rebels, robber, traitors), ひぞく (coarse, lineal descendants, rebel, vulgar, vulgarism, vulgarity), ひと (adult, character, condemning, denouncing, human being, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, other people, people, person, personality, spending, true man, visitor), さんぞく (brigand). (various references) | |
Korean | 산적 (Bandits). (various references) | |
Manx | roosteyr (brigand, robber). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bandidu. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anditbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bandido (bravo, desperado, gangster, hoodlum, outlaw, robber, ruffian, thug). (various references) | |
Romanian | bandit (bravo, brigand, gangster, highwayman, murderer, ruffian, villain), bandiţi. (various references) | |
Russian | разбойник (bandolero, brigand, footpad, highwayman, mosstrooper, reaver, reiver, rover), бандит бандитский, бандит (brigand, gorilla, gunman, hijacker, killer, killer whale, mobster, mosstrooper, outlaw, ruffian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bandit, pustahija (ribald). (various references) | |
Spanish | bandido (brigand, bushranger, desperado, mosstrooper, outlaw), bandolero (bandoleer, outlaw). (various references) | |
Swedish | bandit (desperado, gun, gunman, thug). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ร้าย (bad guy, baddie, baddy). (various references) | |
Turkish | haydut (brigand, filibuster, footpad, gangster, hoodlum, little perisher, mobster, mugger, outlaw, plugugly, robber, thug). (various references) | |
Turkmen | garakзy, galtaman. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бандит (apache, bully, gangster, killer, mobster, mosstrooper, outlaw). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysbeiliwr (brigand, robber, spoiler), herwr (brigand, outlaw, raider, scout). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | latro, latronem, latrones, latronibus, latronis, latronum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bandit": banditries, banditry, bandits, banditti. (additional references) | |
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"Bandit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abondio, andit, Badoit, banci, bandeath, bandi, bandid, bandido, bandish, bandite, Banditi, bandu, bandwit, Banfi, Banim, banit, Bankim, bedit, Behdet, Bendysh, benit, bindi, Bnaid, Bodnath, Bondt, Bramfitt, bundi, Bundt, candit, Dandit, Ubaydat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bandit" (pronounced ba"ndut) |
| 4 | -n d u t | Pandit, pundit. |
| 3 | -d u t | accredit, audit, credit, discredit, edit, plaudit. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: tabid. | |
-2 letters: adit, anti, bait, band, bani, bind, bint, dint, dita, tain. | |
-3 letters: aid, ain, ait, and, ani, ant, bad, ban, bat, bid, bin, bit, dab, dib, din, dit, nab, nib, nit, tab, tad, tan, tin. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ai, an, at, ba, bi, id, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: bandits, dingbat, tabanid. | |
+2 letters: antibody, banditry, banditti, bidental, debating, dingbats, obtained, tabanids. | |
+3 letters: abducting, abduction, abstained, badminton, bandicoot, bandwidth, bastinade, bastinado, bastioned, bepainted, botanised, botanized, butadiene, incubated, inhabited, intubated, multiband, trainband, waistband, windblast, wristband. | |
+4 letters: abdicating, abdication, abductions, abominated, abridgment, adhibiting, ambitioned, antibodies, backdating, badmintons, bandicoots, banditries, bandwidths, banistered, bartending, bastinades, besteading, bloodstain, bombinated, brominated, butadienes, disbarment, dubitation, hibernated, inbreathed, indictable, inebriated, redbaiting, reobtained, submediant, timberland, trainbands, turbinated, unbaptized, waistbands, windblasts, wristbands. | |
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