Definitions for thief
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Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. thief, stealernoun

   a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. thiefnoun

   One who has carried out a theft

   Etymology: From þeof, from þeubaz.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Thiefnoun

   one who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft

2. Thiefnoun

   a waster in the snuff of a candle

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Thief

   thēf, n. one who steals or takes unlawfully what is not his own.—ns. Thief′-catch′er, -tā′ker, one whose business is to detect thieves and bring them to justice: a detective. [A.S. theóf; Ice. thjóf-r, Ger. dieb.]

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Matched Categories

1. • Criminal

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'thief' in Nouns Frequency: #2074

Anagrams for thief »

1. feith

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of thief in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of thief in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of thief in a Sentence

1. One Turkish businessman:

   I used to own 100 percent of my firm. Now I feel like a thief of my own goods.

2. Fabrice:

   I was quite relieved when my wife got her credit card stolen...; the thief was spending less!

3. Lee Boyd Malvo:

   I was a thief. I stole people’s lives, what inside me made that possible?

4. Anuj Somany:

   A person who steals and gets caught is a THIEF; one who loots ,but does not get noticed to a lot of people is a CHIEF.

5. Thomas Jefferson:

   The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in ... the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it’s noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. ...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

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