Highwayman
['haɪweɪmən] or ['haɪ'wemən]
Definition
(n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
Typed by Harrison
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Robber, footpad, bandit, brigand, freebooter, marauder, outlaw, highway robber.
Checked by Ellen
Examples
- Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He rode like a highwayman. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The first seemed to be an assembly of heroes and demigods; the other, a knot of pedlars, pick-pockets, highwayman, and bullies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Typist: Rachel