baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
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(noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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baking | (noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
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(noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
baklava | (noun) rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey | - |
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baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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balaclava | (noun) a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face | Synonyms: balaclava helmet |
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balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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balalaika | (noun) a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings | - |
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balance | (noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
(noun) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat | Synonyms: balance wheel |
(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: proportion, proportionality |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
(noun) a state of equilibrium | - |
balancer | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: halter, haltere |
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(noun) an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | - |
balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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balanitis | (noun) inflammation of the head of the penis | - |
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balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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balas | (noun) a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel | Synonyms: balas ruby |
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balata | (noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber | Synonyms: balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata |
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(noun) when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls | Synonyms: gutta balata |
balboa | (noun) the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos | - |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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balcony | (noun) a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet | - |
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(noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | - |
baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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bale | (noun) a large bundle bound for storage or transport | - |
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baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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balefire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: bonfire |
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balefulness | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: maleficence, mischief |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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balk | (noun) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base | - |
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(noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: baulk, rafter |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: baulk |
balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
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balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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balkline | (noun) line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game | Synonyms: baulk-line, string line |
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ball | (noun) a pitch that is not in the strike zone | - |
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(noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: baseball, baseball game |
(noun) round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | - |
(noun) a spherical object used as a plaything | - |
(noun) a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | Synonyms: musket ball |
(noun) a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | - |
(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
(noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: formal |
(noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump |
(noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: globe, orb |
ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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(noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
(noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
(noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
(noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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ballet | (noun) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers | Synonyms: concert dance |
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(noun) music written for a ballet | - |
balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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(noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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(noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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balloon | (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | - |
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(noun) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck | - |
balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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ballot | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: balloting, vote, voting |
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(noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting | - |
balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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(noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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ballroom | (noun) large room used mainly for dancing | Synonyms: dance hall, dance palace |
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ballup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, cockup, mess-up |
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ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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balm | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: ointment, salve, unction, unguent |
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(noun) any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing | - |
balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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balsa | (noun) forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts | Synonyms: Ochroma lagopus |
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(noun) strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats | Synonyms: balsa wood |
balsam | (noun) an ointment containing a fragrant resin | - |
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(noun) any seed plant yielding balsam | - |
(noun) any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes | - |
balsamroot | (noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots | - |
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baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bam | (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bang, blast, clap, eruption |
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bambino | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: toddler, tot, yearling |
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bamboo | (noun) woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture | - |
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(noun) the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles | - |
ban | (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: prohibition, proscription |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: banning, forbiddance, forbidding |
(noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania | - |
(noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova | - |
(noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: dit, Hart, hartley |
banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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banana | (noun) elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh | - |
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(noun) any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits | Synonyms: banana tree |
band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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(noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
(noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
(noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
(noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
(noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
(noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
(noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
(noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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bandbox | (noun) a light cylindrical box for holding light articles of attire (especially hats) | - |
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bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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bandicoot | (noun) any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous | - |
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banding | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, stripe |
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(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, stria, striation |
bandit | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: brigand |
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banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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