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Definition: Burglar |
BurglarNoun1. A thief who enters a building with intent to steal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burglar" was first used: 1541. (references) |
Etymology: Burglar \Bur"glar\, noun. [from Old English expression burg town, French bourg, from Late Latin expression burgus (of German origin) Old French lere thief, from the Latin expression latro. See Borough, and Larceny.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Burglar [burg-larron ]. The robber of a burgh, castle, or house. Burglary is called, in ancient law-books, hamesecken or hám-secn, house-violation. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Burglar, housebreaker; cracksman, magsman; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild. |
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Crosswords: Burglar |
| English words defined with "burglar": burglar alarm, Burglarer, Burglariously ♦ case, cat burglar ♦ handle, housebreaker ♦ jimmy ♦ lever, light-fingered ♦ nimble-fingered ♦ pillow slip, pillowcase, prise, prize, pry ♦ slip ♦ wield. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "burglar": burglar-alarm installer and servicer ♦ doorshaker ♦ electrician, telephone ♦ MAINTENANCE MECHANIC, TELEPHONE, MERCHANT PATROLLER ♦ POLICE OFFICER, CRIME PREVENTION, PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL REPAIRER ♦ SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "burglar": Burglary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A burglar tried to break into my friend's house, fell through a skylight, and cut his leg on a knife on the kitchen counter (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) A strong burglar with a weak mind (Absolute Power; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cat Burglar (1961) Cheese Burglar (1946) Burglar to the Rescue (1931) The Burglar (1928) Colonel Heeza Liar's Burglar (1923) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | House alarm going off when a burglar enters. |
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| Author | Quotation |
O. Henry Porter | A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. |
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Business | An additional incentive is the reduction in home insurance premiums for those who have installed armored doors or burglar alarms. (references) | |
This situation resulted in an increased demand for security equipment especially burglar alarms, car alarms, electronic surveillance equipment and strongboxes. (references) | ||
Regarding fire and burglar alarms, the U.S. current market share is estimated at 90% with the remainder distributed among Canadian, Japanese and Korean products. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | Other security equipment that continues to be in demand includes access control, burglar and fire alarms and detectors, CCTV, outdoors photoelectric beam detectors for perimeter protection, and fire-fighting equipment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Burglar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Burglar" is used about 370 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) | 100% | 370 | 14,662 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "burglar": burglar alarm ♦ burglar system ♦ cat burglar. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "burglar": burglar-alarm, burglar-proof, burglar-proofing, burglar-trap. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "burglar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | inbreker. (various references) | |
Albanian | vjedhës (cat burglar, cracksman, hooker, larcenous, lurcher, peculator, pickpocket, pilferer, prig, robber, sneak, thief), hajdut (crack, crook, Cutpurse, pilferer, robber, stealer, thief, yegg). (various references) | |
Arabic | لص (bandit, brigand, creep, housebreaker, picklock, robber, thief, yegg), سارق (pirate, thief, thievish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крадец с взлом (housebreaker), обирник (robber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 竊盜 , 夜贼. (various references) | |
Czech | zlodìj (prig, robber, thief, yeggman), pachatel vloupání, lupiè (freebooter, harpy, hold-up-man, plunderer, raider, robber, thug). (various references) | |
Danish | tyverialarm med kapacitive virkninger (burglar alarm operating by capacitance effects), tyverialarm (burglar alarm). (various references) | |
Dutch | inbreker (black knight, intruder, penetrator, perpetrator, violator). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rompŝtelisto. (various references) | |
Farsi | سارق منازل , دزد (Hobgoblin, Peculator, Picaroonp, Piker, Robber, Stealer, Thief). (various references) | |
Finnish | murtovaras (house-breaker). (various references) | |
French | voleur, cambrioleur. (various references) | |
Frisian | ynbrekker. (various references) | |
German | einbrecher (burglars, burgler, housebreaker, picklock, raider, shop breaker), Dieb (filcher, larcenist, mugger, pilferer, plunder, purloiner, scrounger, theft, thief, thieve). (various references) | |
Greek | κλέπτησ διά ρήξεωσ (housebreaker), νυχτοκλέπτησ, διαρρήκτησ (cracksman, housebreaker, yegg), διαρρήκτης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פורץ (cracksman, housebreaker), ' ב (robber, sneak thief, snitch, steal, thief). (various references) | |
Hungarian | betörő (crack, cracker of cribs, housebreaker), éjszakai betörő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggedor (looter), pencuri (thief), membongkar (break in, demolish, disclose, dismantle, force open, open up, pry, unload, unpack). (various references) | |
Irish | buirgléir. (various references) | |
Italian | scassinatore (housebreaker, safe cracker, safe-breaker), ladro (hooker, picaroon, prig, robber, thief, thieving). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 泥' (robber, theft, thief). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞく (apprehension, customs, group, insurgent, manners, mark in dictionary indicating slang, mundane things, periodic table group, race, rebel, the laity, the world, thief, tribe, uneasiness, vulgarity, worldliness), おしいり (breaking into), おし"み (burglary, closet), きりとり"うとう (burglary, robber, violent robbery), きりとり (burglary, cutting, cutting off, robber, robbery with assault, tearing off), どろぼう (robber, theft, thief). (various references) | |
Korean | 강도 (Robberies, robbery). (various references) | |
Manx | maarliagh oie, burgleyr (cracksman). (various references) | |
Norwegian | innbruddstyv. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urglarbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | assaltante (aggressor, assailant, assaulter, raider, robber). (various references) | |
Romanian | spãrgãtor (breaker, cracksman, housebreaker, picklock), hoţ (abductor, cracksman, housebreaker, knave, larcener, picaroon, pilferer, prig, purloiner, reaver, robber, thief). (various references) | |
Russian | взломщик (breaker, cracksman, housebreaker, picklock, prowler, yegg). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | provalnik (housebreaker), obijač (scutcher), lopov (blackleg, crook, hacker, lifter, picklock, prig, robber, sneak thief, taker, thief, yegg). (various references) | |
Spanish | ladrón (cracksman, crook, grabber, housebreaker, lag, raider, robber, shoplifter, thief, villain). (various references) | |
Swedish | inbrottstjuv (cracksman, housebreaker, picklock). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ร้ายย่องเบา. (various references) | |
Turkish | soyguncu (cracksman, depredator, highwayman, mugger, plunderer, robber), hırsız (cracksman, hijacker, housebreaker, larcener, larcenist, lifter, lurcher, picaroon, pilferer, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shifter, shoplifter, thief, yegg, yeggman), ev hırsızı (cracksman). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грабіжник (depredator, looter, outlaw, plunderer, reaver, reiver, robber, sacker, snatcher), зломщик (breaker, housebreaker, picklock). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ trộm bẻ khoá, kẻ trộm đêm, kẻ trộm đ o ngạch (cracksman). (various references) | |
Zulu | umgqekezi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | burgus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | burgator. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | burgeor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burglar": burglaries, burglarious, burglariously, burglarize, burglarized, burglarizes, burglarizing, burglarproof, burglars, burglary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "burglar": antiburglar. (additional references) | |
Words containing "burglar": antiburglary. (additional references) | |
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"Burglar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baglar, berglar, Biggelaar, Brulart, Bugar, burgar, Burghal, Burgla, Burgler, burglur, burgular, Burlam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burglar" (pronounced ber"gler) |
| 3 | -g l er | angler, bungler, finagler, kegler, smuggler, straggler, strangler, wangler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-l-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: gular, rugal, rural. | |
-3 letters: blur, brag, bura, burg, burl, burr, garb, gaur, grab, grub, guar, ruga. | |
-4 letters: alb, arb, bag, bal, bar, bra, brr, bug, bur, gab, gal, gar, gul, lab, lag, lar, lug, rag, rub, rug, urb. | |
-5 letters: ab, ag, al, ar, ba, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-l-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burglars, burglary. | |
+3 letters: burglaries, burglarize. | |
+4 letters: antiburglar, burglarious, burglarized, burglarizes. | |
+5 letters: antiburglary, burglarizing, burglarproof. | |
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