Definitions for thief
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. thief, stealernoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thiefnoun

   One who has carried out a theft

2. Etymology: From þeof, from þeubaz.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. THIEFnoun

   Etymology: thiubs, Gothick; ðeif , Saxon; dief, Dutch.

   1. One who takes what belongs to another: the thief steals by secrecy, and the robber by violence; but these senses are confounded.

   Take heed, have open eye; for thieves do foot by night. William Shakespeare.

   This he said because he was a thief, and had the bag. John.

   Can you think I owe a thief my life,
   Because he took it not by lawless force?
   Am I obliged by that t’ assist his rapines,
   And to maintain his murders? Dryden.

   2. An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.

   Their burning lamps the storm ensuing show,
   Th’ oil sparkles, thieves about the snuff do grow. May.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thief

   Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word theft is also used as a synonym or informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as larceny, robbery, embezzlement, extortion, blackmail, or receiving stolen property. In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny, while in others, theft is defined more narrowly. Someone who carries out an act of theft may be described as a "thief" (PL: thieves).Theft is the name of a statutory offence in California, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thief

   A thief is an individual who unlawfully steals or attempts to steal another person's property or belongings, typically in a secretive and deceitful manner, without the owner's consent and with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of the property.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. thief

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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

How to pronounce thief?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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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. French Proverb:

   Set a thief to catch a thief.

2. Caroline Vandergriff/KOKH:

   It made me wonder whether someone stole her for dog fighting and either cut or tried to starve her to make her aggressive, bridget was also found wearing her distinctive pink, floral collar, and her leash, and my phone number was scratched off her tag — maybe the thief got spooked by all the media attention and dumped her on a random road.

3. Proverb:

   Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.

4. Jay McInerney:

   The restaurant thief was lurking around … and grabbed Anne’s bag from the back of her chair. At the time, we didn’t catch it … cops came and we filed a report at the restaurant; their security footage showed a man taking the bag. But when we went back to our hotel room … we were cleaned out. The thieves definitely had taste, they only took the good stuff … It didn’t occur to us at the time about the room key being in Anne’s purse, it couldn’t have been worse luck.

5. So I Married an Axe Murderer:

   Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=thief
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thief
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=thief
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thief
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=thief