Surprisingly enough, he turned out to be a thief.
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Thief
//θiːf//
Synonyms for "thief" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
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10 entriesMore specific
54 entriesShowing 16 of 54 words.
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4 entriesat location
2 entriescapable of
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
derived
35 entriesa fair booty makes many a thiefcomparison is the thief of joycricket thief spiderhorse thiefjoke thiefjoule thiefliquor thiefopportunity makes a thiefopportunity makes the thiefoxygen thiefpalm thiefpanel thiefpolice and thiefprocrastination is the thief of timesampling thiefset a thief to catch a thief
Showing 16 of 35 words.
has a
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
360 translations across 200 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аӷьычҩы noun (one who carries out theft)
Afrikaans
1 entries- dief noun (one who carries out theft)
Albanian
2 entries- vjedhës noun (one who carries out theft)
- vjedhëse noun (one who carries out theft)
Amharic
1 entries- ሌባ noun (one who carries out theft)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κλέπτης noun (one who carries out theft)
- κλώψ noun (one who carries out theft)
- φώρ noun (one who carries out theft)
Arabic
4 entries- بايق noun (one who carries out theft)
- حرامى noun (one who carries out theft)
- حرامي noun (one who carries out theft)
- حَرَامِيَّة noun (one who carries out theft)
Aragonese
1 entries- furtaire noun (one who carries out theft)
Aramaic
2 entries- ܓܢܒܐ noun (one who carries out theft)
- ܓܢܒܬܐ noun (one who carries out theft)
Archi
1 entries- цӏогьор noun (one who carries out theft)
Armenian
1 entries- գող noun (one who carries out theft)
Aromanian
4 entries- caceac noun (one who carries out theft)
- chisãgi noun (one who carries out theft)
- fur noun (one who carries out theft)
- furcudar noun (one who carries out theft)
Assamese
1 entries- চোৰ noun (one who carries out theft)
Asturian
1 entries- lladrón noun (one who carries out theft)
Avar
1 entries- цӏогьор noun (one who carries out theft)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- oğru noun (one who carries out theft)
Baluchi
1 entries- دز noun (one who carries out theft)
Bashkir
3 entries- бур noun (one who carries out theft)
- уғры noun (one who carries out theft)
- ҡараҡ noun (one who carries out theft)
Basque
2 entries- ebasle noun (one who carries out theft)
- lapur noun (one who carries out theft)
Belarusian
2 entries- зладзе́йка noun (one who carries out theft)
- зло́дзей noun (one who carries out theft)
Bengali
1 entries- চোর noun (one who carries out theft)
Bikol Central
1 entries- paraikit noun (one who carries out theft)
Breton
1 entries- laer noun (one who carries out theft)
Bulgarian
3 entries- арами́йка noun (one who carries out theft)
- арами́я noun (one who carries out theft)
- краде́ц noun (one who carries out theft)
Burmese
1 entries- သူခိုး noun (one who carries out theft)
Catalan
1 entries- lladre noun (one who carries out theft)
Cebuano
1 entries- kawatan noun (one who carries out theft)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دز noun (one who carries out theft)
Chakma
1 entries- 𑄌𑄪𑄢𑄴 noun (one who carries out theft)
Chamicuro
1 entries- ma'koleti noun (one who carries out theft)
Chechen
1 entries- къу noun (one who carries out theft)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᏃᏍᎩᏍᎩ noun (one who carries out theft)
Chichewa
2 entries- nkhumbzi noun (one who carries out theft)
- wákúbá noun (one who carries out theft)
Chinese
4 entries- вэзый noun (one who carries out theft)
- зый noun (one who carries out theft)
- 勍仔 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 賊仔 /贼仔 noun (one who carries out theft)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 賊 /贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 宵小 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 小偷 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 盜賊 /盗贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 竊賊 /窃贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
Church Slavic
2 entries- зълодѣи noun (one who carries out theft)
- татъ noun (one who carries out theft)
Chuvash
1 entries- вӑрӑ noun (one who carries out theft)
Cimbrian
1 entries- diip noun (one who carries out theft)
Cornish
2 entries- lader noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladres noun (one who carries out theft)
Corsican
1 entries- latru noun (one who carries out theft)
Czech
2 entries- zloděj noun (one who carries out theft)
- zlodějka noun (one who carries out theft)
Danish
2 entries- tyv noun (one who carries out theft)
- tyveknægt noun (one who carries out theft)
Dari
1 entries- دُزْد noun (one who carries out theft)
Dutch
3 entries- dief noun (one who carries out theft)
- dievegge noun (one who carries out theft)
- gannef noun (one who carries out theft)
Egyptian
2 entries- a-V4-A-i-i-A24 noun (one who carries out theft)
- i-TA-A-D51:D40-A1 noun (one who carries out theft)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝtelisto noun (one who carries out theft)
Estonian
1 entries- varas noun (one who carries out theft)
Ewe
2 entries- fiafi noun (one who carries out theft)
- fiafitɔ noun (one who carries out theft)
Faroese
1 entries- tjóvur noun (one who carries out theft)
Finnish
4 entries- rosvo noun (one who carries out theft)
- ryöväri noun (one who carries out theft)
- varas noun (one who carries out theft)
- voro noun (one who carries out theft)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- lârro noun (one who carries out theft)
French
2 entries- voleur noun (one who carries out theft)
- voleuse noun (one who carries out theft)
Friulian
1 entries- lari noun (one who carries out theft)
Galician
4 entries- galafate noun (one who carries out theft)
- gallofo noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladroeiro noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladrón noun (one who carries out theft)
Gan Chinese
1 entries- 賊 /贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
Georgian
1 entries- ქურდი noun (one who carries out theft)
German
2 entries- Dieb noun (one who carries out theft)
- Diebin noun (one who carries out theft)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 noun (one who carries out theft)
Greek
1 entries- κλέφτης noun (one who carries out theft)
Gujarati
1 entries- દસ્યુ noun (one who carries out theft)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 賊仔 /贼仔 noun (one who carries out theft)
Hebrew
1 entries- גַּנָּב noun (one who carries out theft)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- kawatan noun (one who carries out theft)
Hindi
4 entries- चोर noun (one who carries out theft)
- दुज़्द noun (one who carries out theft)
- दुज्द noun (one who carries out theft)
- सारिक noun (one who carries out theft)
Hungarian
1 entries- tolvaj noun (one who carries out theft)
Icelandic
1 entries- þjófur noun (one who carries out theft)
Ido
1 entries- furtanto noun (one who carries out theft)
Ilocano
1 entries- mannanakaw noun (one who carries out theft)
Indonesian
1 entries- pencuri noun (one who carries out theft)
Ingrian
1 entries- varas noun (one who carries out theft)
Ingush
1 entries- къу noun (one who carries out theft)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- حَرامی noun (one who carries out theft)
- دُزْد noun (one who carries out theft)
- سارِق noun (one who carries out theft)
Irish
1 entries- gadaí noun (one who carries out theft)
Isoko
1 entries- oji noun (one who carries out theft)
Istriot
1 entries- laro noun (one who carries out theft)
Italian
4 entries- borsaiolo noun (one who carries out theft)
- borseggiatore noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladra noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladro noun (one who carries out theft)
Japanese
3 entries- 泥棒 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 盗賊 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 窃盗者 noun (one who carries out theft)
Javanese
2 entries- bajingan noun (one who carries out theft)
- maling noun (one who carries out theft)
Kalmyk
1 entries- хулхач noun (one who carries out theft)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕಳ್ಳ noun (one who carries out theft)
Kashmiri
1 entries- ژوٗر noun (one who carries out theft)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұры noun (one who carries out theft)
Khmer
1 entries- ចោរ noun (one who carries out theft)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũici noun (one who carries out theft)
Kituba
1 entries- muyibi noun (one who carries out theft)
Komi-Permyak
1 entries- гусь noun (one who carries out theft)
Kongo
1 entries- mwivi noun (one who carries out theft)
Korean
2 entries- 도둑 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 도적 noun (one who carries out theft)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ууру noun (one who carries out theft)
Ladin
1 entries- lère noun (one who carries out theft)
Ladino
3 entries- ladhron noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladrón noun (one who carries out theft)
- לאד׳רון noun (one who carries out theft)
Lao
3 entries- ກະໂມຽ noun (one who carries out theft)
- ຂະໂມຍ noun (one who carries out theft)
- ໂຈນ noun (one who carries out theft)
Latin
2 entries- fūr noun (one who carries out theft)
- latro noun (one who carries out theft)
Latvian
2 entries- zagle noun (one who carries out theft)
- zaglis noun (one who carries out theft)
Laz
1 entries- mamxire noun (one who carries out theft)
Lezgi
1 entries- угъри noun (one who carries out theft)
Ligurian
1 entries- laddro noun (one who carries out theft)
Lingala
2 entries- moibi noun (one who carries out theft)
- moyibi noun (one who carries out theft)
Lithuanian
2 entries- vagis noun (one who carries out theft)
- vagė noun (one who carries out theft)
Livonian
1 entries- salāj noun (one who carries out theft)
Lombard
1 entries- lader noun (one who carries out theft)
Low German
1 entries- Deef noun (one who carries out theft)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- złoźej noun (one who carries out theft)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Déif noun (one who carries out theft)
Macedonian
4 entries- арамија noun (one who carries out theft)
- арамијка noun (one who carries out theft)
- крадачка noun (one who carries out theft)
- крадец noun (one who carries out theft)
Malagasy
2 entries- fangalarina noun (one who carries out theft)
- kary noun (one who carries out theft)
Malay
1 entries- pencuri noun (one who carries out theft)
Malayalam
2 entries- കള്ളൻ noun (one who carries out theft)
- മോഷ്ടാവ് noun (one who carries out theft)
Maltese
1 entries- ħalliel noun (one who carries out theft)
Mapudungun
1 entries- weñefe noun (one who carries out theft)
Marathi
1 entries- चोर noun (one who carries out theft)
Middle English
1 entries- thef noun (one who carries out theft)
Mirandese
1 entries- lhadron noun (one who carries out theft)
Mongolian
4 entries- хулгай noun (one who carries out theft)
- хулгайч noun (one who carries out theft)
- ᠬᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢ noun (one who carries out theft)
- ᠬᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢᠢᠴᠢ noun (one who carries out theft)
Mwani
1 entries- mwivi noun (one who carries out theft)
Māori
3 entries- kaiā noun (one who carries out theft)
- tāhae noun (one who carries out theft)
- whānako noun (one who carries out theft)
Nanai
1 entries- чово noun (one who carries out theft)
Navajo
1 entries- aniʼįįhii noun (one who carries out theft)
Neapolitan
4 entries- ferraiuólo noun (one who carries out theft)
- latro noun (one who carries out theft)
- mariunciéllo noun (one who carries out theft)
- mariuólo noun (one who carries out theft)
Nepali
1 entries- चोर noun (one who carries out theft)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mwidzi noun (one who carries out theft)
Ngombe (Congo)
1 entries- moibi noun (one who carries out theft)
Nigerian Pidgin
1 entries- tiff noun (one who carries out theft)
Norman
1 entries- voleux noun (one who carries out theft)
North Frisian
1 entries- tiif noun (one who carries out theft)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- diz noun (one who carries out theft)
- dizîker noun (one who carries out theft)
Northern Min Chinese
1 entries- 賊 /贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tjuv noun (one who carries out theft)
- tyv noun (one who carries out theft)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tjuv noun (one who carries out theft)
Occitan
4 entries- laira noun (one who carries out theft)
- laire noun (one who carries out theft)
- raubaira noun (one who carries out theft)
- raubaire noun (one who carries out theft)
Odia
1 entries- ଚୋର noun (one who carries out theft)
Ojibwe
1 entries- gimoodishk noun (one who carries out theft)
Old English
1 entries- þēof noun (one who carries out theft)
Old Norse
1 entries- þjófr noun (one who carries out theft)
Oromo
1 entries- hattuu noun (one who carries out theft)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اوغری noun (one who carries out theft)
- حرامی noun (one who carries out theft)
- خرسز noun (one who carries out theft)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- крадош noun (one who carries out theft)
- крадошка noun (one who carries out theft)
Pashto
1 entries- غل noun (one who carries out theft)
Phoenician
1 entries- 𐤀𐤂𐤓𐤃 noun (one who carries out theft)
Piedmontese
1 entries- làder noun (one who carries out theft)
Polish
2 entries- złodziej noun (one who carries out theft)
- złodziejka noun (one who carries out theft)
Portuguese
2 entries- ladra noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladrão noun (one who carries out theft)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਚੋਰ noun (one who carries out theft)
Quechua
1 entries- suwa noun (one who carries out theft)
Rohingya
1 entries- sur noun (one who carries out theft)
Romagnol
1 entries- lêdar noun (one who carries out theft)
Romani
1 entries- ćor noun (one who carries out theft)
Romanian
2 entries- hoață noun (one who carries out theft)
- hoț noun (one who carries out theft)
Romansch
2 entries- lader noun (one who carries out theft)
- leder noun (one who carries out theft)
Russian
4 entries- вор noun (one who carries out theft)
- вори́шка noun (one who carries out theft)
- воро́вка noun (one who carries out theft)
- ворю́га noun (one who carries out theft)
Sanskrit
2 entries- चोर noun (one who carries out theft)
- चोरी noun (one who carries out theft)
Scots
1 entries- thief noun (one who carries out theft)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mèirleach noun (one who carries out theft)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- haràmija noun (one who carries out theft)
- kràdljivac noun (one who carries out theft)
- lópov noun (one who carries out theft)
- tȁt noun (one who carries out theft)
Sicilian
3 entries- larruni noun (one who carries out theft)
- latru noun (one who carries out theft)
- latruni noun (one who carries out theft)
Sidamo
1 entries- mooraancho noun (one who carries out theft)
Sikkimese
1 entries- རྐུན་ཅན noun (one who carries out theft)
Sinhalese
1 entries- හොරා noun (one who carries out theft)
Slovak
2 entries- zlodej noun (one who carries out theft)
- zlodejka noun (one who carries out theft)
Slovene
2 entries- tat noun (one who carries out theft)
- tatica noun (one who carries out theft)
Somali
1 entries- tuug noun (one who carries out theft)
Southern Altai
1 entries- уур noun (one who carries out theft)
Spanish
4 entries- amigo de lo ajeno noun (one who carries out theft)
- caco noun (one who carries out theft)
- chori noun (one who carries out theft)
- chorifaite noun (one who carries out theft)
Sundanese
1 entries- maling noun (one who carries out theft)
Svan
1 entries- ქუ̂ით noun (one who carries out theft)
Swahili
2 entries- mnyang'anyi class I/II noun (one who carries out theft)
- mwizi class I noun (one who carries out theft)
Swedish
1 entries- tjuv noun (one who carries out theft)
Tabasaran
1 entries- угъри noun (one who carries out theft)
Tagalog
1 entries- magnanakaw noun (one who carries out theft)
Tajik
2 entries- дузд noun (one who carries out theft)
- сориқ noun (one who carries out theft)
Talysh
1 entries- دزد noun (one who carries out theft)
Tamil
4 entries- கள்ளன் noun (one who carries out theft)
- கள்ளர் noun (one who carries out theft)
- கள்ளி noun (one who carries out theft)
- திருடன் noun (one who carries out theft)
Taos
1 entries- tràmpiʼína noun (one who carries out theft)
Tatar
1 entries- карак noun (one who carries out theft)
Telugu
1 entries- దొంగ noun (one who carries out theft)
Thai
2 entries- ขโมย noun (one who carries out theft)
- โจร noun (one who carries out theft)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྐུ་མ noun (one who carries out theft)
Tocharian B
1 entries- lyak noun (one who carries out theft)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- raskol noun (one who carries out theft)
Turkish
4 entries- harami noun (one who carries out theft)
- hırsız noun (one who carries out theft)
- karak noun (one who carries out theft)
- kuldur noun (one who carries out theft)
Turkmen
1 entries- ogry noun (one who carries out theft)
Tuvan
1 entries- оор noun (one who carries out theft)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зло́дій noun (one who carries out theft)
- зло́дійка noun (one who carries out theft)
- краді́й noun (one who carries out theft)
- краді́йка noun (one who carries out theft)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- paduch noun (one who carries out theft)
Urdu
4 entries- دُزْد noun (one who carries out theft)
- سارِق noun (one who carries out theft)
- سارِقَہ noun (one who carries out theft)
- چور noun (one who carries out theft)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئوغرى noun (one who carries out theft)
Uzbek
2 entries- duzd noun (one who carries out theft)
- oʻgʻri noun (one who carries out theft)
Venetan
3 entries- ladro noun (one who carries out theft)
- ladron noun (one who carries out theft)
- laro noun (one who carries out theft)
Vietnamese
3 entries- kẻ cắp noun (one who carries out theft)
- kẻ trộm noun (one who carries out theft)
- kẻ ăn trộm noun (one who carries out theft)
Vilamovian
1 entries- dīb noun (one who carries out theft)
Volapük
3 entries- hitifan noun (one who carries out theft)
- jitifan noun (one who carries out theft)
- tifan noun (one who carries out theft)
Walloon
3 entries- voleu noun (one who carries out theft)
- voleuse noun (one who carries out theft)
- volresse noun (one who carries out theft)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- buyon noun (one who carries out theft)
Welsh
2 entries- lladron noun (one who carries out theft)
- lleidr noun (one who carries out theft)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- be at tangi noun (one who carries out theft)
Wu Chinese
2 entries- 賊 /贼 noun (one who carries out theft)
- 賊骨頭 /贼骨头 noun (one who carries out theft)
Yao
1 entries- jwawiyi class 1 noun (one who carries out theft)
Yiddish
2 entries- גנבֿ noun (one who carries out theft)
- גנבֿטע noun (one who carries out theft)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- ookol noun (one who carries out theft)
Zazaki
2 entries- tırıter noun (one who carries out theft)
- xırxız noun (one who carries out theft)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The thief forced her to hand over the money.
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A thief broke into the house to steal the money.
Source: tatoeba (19214)
We captured the thief.
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