Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.
Source: tatoeba (18413)
Robbery
//ˈɹɒbəɹi//
Synonyms for "robbery" (81 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (40)
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8 entriesMore specific
11 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescauses
2 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
150 entriesShowing 16 of 150 words.
Translations
99 translations across 46 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λῃστεία noun (act or practice of robbing)
Arabic
2 entries- سَرِقَة noun (act or practice of robbing)
- لُصُوصِيَّة noun (act or practice of robbing)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- qarət noun (act or practice of robbing)
- soyma noun (act or practice of robbing)
- soyğun noun (act or practice of robbing)
- talan noun (act or practice of robbing)
Belarusian
4 entries- грабе́ж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- лупе́ж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- рабу́нак noun (act or practice of robbing)
- разбо́й noun (act or practice of robbing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- грабе́ж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- о́бир noun (act or practice of robbing)
Catalan
1 entries- robatori noun (act or practice of robbing)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 搶劫 /抢劫 noun (act or practice of robbing)
Czech
1 entries- loupež noun (act or practice of robbing)
Danish
2 entries- røveri noun (act or practice of robbing)
- røveriforsøg noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
Dutch
2 entries- beroving noun (act or practice of robbing)
- roof noun (act or practice of robbing)
Egyptian
1 entries- a-wA-A-A24 noun (act or practice of robbing)
Esperanto
2 entries- rabado noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rabo noun (act or practice of robbing)
Finnish
4 entries- kiristys noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- ryösteleminen noun (act or practice of robbing)
- ryöstely noun (act or practice of robbing)
- ryöstäminen noun (act or practice of robbing)
French
4 entries- banditisme noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- braquage noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- brigandage noun (act or practice of robbing)
- vol à main armée noun (act or practice of robbing)
Galician
1 entries- roubo noun (act or practice of robbing)
Georgian
1 entries- ძარცვა noun (act or practice of robbing)
German
2 entries- Raub noun (act or practice of robbing)
- Raub noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
Greek
1 entries- ληστεία noun (act or practice of robbing)
Hindi
3 entries- डाका noun (act or practice of robbing)
- डाका noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- लूट noun (act or practice of robbing)
Hungarian
1 entries- rablás noun (act or practice of robbing)
Italian
3 entries- furto noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rapina noun (act or practice of robbing)
- ruberia noun (act or practice of robbing)
Japanese
1 entries- 強盗 noun (act or practice of robbing)
Kazakh
1 entries- тонау noun (act or practice of robbing)
Korean
1 entries- 강도 noun (act or practice of robbing)
Latin
1 entries- latrocinium noun (act or practice of robbing)
Macedonian
2 entries- грабеж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- пљачка noun (act or practice of robbing)
Malay
1 entries- rompakan noun (act or practice of robbing)
Malayalam
1 entries- കൊള്ള noun (act or practice of robbing)
Marathi
2 entries- दरोडा noun (act or practice of robbing)
- दरोडेखोरी noun (act or practice of robbing)
Middle English
4 entries- revynge noun (act or practice of robbing)
- revynge noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- robberie noun (act or practice of robbing)
- robberie noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ran noun (act or practice of robbing)
- røveri noun (act or practice of robbing)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ran noun (act or practice of robbing)
Old English
1 entries- rēaflāc noun (act or practice of robbing)
Persian
2 entries- دستبرد noun (act or practice of robbing)
- سرقت noun (act or practice of robbing)
Polish
4 entries- grabież noun (act or practice of robbing)
- napad noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rabunek noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rozbój noun (act or practice of robbing)
Portuguese
3 entries- assalto noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- furto noun (act or practice of robbing)
- roubo noun (act or practice of robbing)
Russian
4 entries- грабёж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- ограбле́ние noun (act or practice of robbing)
- ограбле́ние noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
- разбо́й noun (act or practice of robbing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pljȁčka noun (act or practice of robbing)
- пља̏чка noun (act or practice of robbing)
Slovak
1 entries- lúpež noun (act or practice of robbing)
Slovene
2 entries- rop noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rop noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
Spanish
4 entries- choreo noun (act or practice of robbing)
- furto noun (act or practice of robbing)
- hurto noun (act or practice of robbing)
- robo noun (act or practice of robbing)
Swedish
2 entries- rån noun (act or practice of robbing)
- rån noun (attempt of taking the property of another by threat)
Tamil
1 entries- கொள்ளை noun (act or practice of robbing)
Turkish
1 entries- soygun noun (act or practice of robbing)
Ukrainian
3 entries- грабу́нок noun (act or practice of robbing)
- грабі́ж noun (act or practice of robbing)
- грабі́жка noun (act or practice of robbing)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cướp giật noun (act or practice of robbing)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The thieves knocked off another bank today in a daytime robbery.
Source: tatoeba (19192)
The boy is capable of robbery.
Source: tatoeba (46303)
The police arrested a suspect in connection with the robbery.
Source: tatoeba (238215)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.