BANDIT (banditti)

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Irregular inflected form: banditti   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bandit mean? 

• BANDIT (noun)
  The noun BANDIT has 1 sense:

1. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

  Familiarity information: BANDIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANDIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bandit; brigand

Hypernyms ("bandit" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

 Context examples 

I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower—and a troop of tidy, happy villages please me better than the finest banditti in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

An English hero of the road would be the next best thing to an Italian bandit; and that could only be surpassed by a Levantine pirate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Like most young scribblers, she went abroad for her characters and scenery, and banditti, counts, gypsies, nuns, and duchesses appeared upon her stage, and played their parts with as much accuracy and spirit as could be expected.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is my opinion the fiddler David must have been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him; and history may say what it will of James Hepburn, but I have a notion, he was just the sort of wild, fierce, bandit hero whom I could have consented to gift with my hand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)