bandit

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”).^[1] Doublet of bandito.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪt/

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bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

     Do you recollect a story my nurse told us of a Sicilian bandit, the terror of the country?—how he saved a young child from a cottage on fire, brought it up delicately, and far removed from his own pursuits; while, at his execution, his chief regret was the future provision for that boy?

2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

• (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
• (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
• (one who cheats others): cheater

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

1. (ambitransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
   • 1921, Munsey's Magazine, volume 74, page 38:

     First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.

   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 160, page 7:

     As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

• IT Band, IT band

Borrowed from Russian банди́т (bandít), ultimately from Italian bandito.

• IPA^(key): [bɑnˈdit]
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

bandit (definite accusative banditi, plural banditlər)

1. bandit, outlaw

   Synonym: soyğunçu

• “bandit” in Obastan.com.

From bandir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bənˈdit]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [banˈdit]

bandit m (plural bandits, feminine bandida, feminine plural bandides)

1. outlaw

• bàndol

• “bandit”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.di/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit

   des procédés de bandit ― dishonest practices

   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »

     "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."

• banditisme
• bandit de grand chemin
• bandit manchot

• → German: Bandit
  • → Bulgarian: банди́т (bandít)
  • → Polish: bandyta
• → Norman: bandit
• → Romanian: bandit

• “bandit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch bandiet, from Middle French bandit, from Italian bandito.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbandɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

bandit (plural bandit-bandit)

1. bandit

   Synonyms: penjahat, pencuri

• “bandit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French bandit.

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

Borrowed from French bandit.

bandit m (plural bandiți)

1. bandit

Borrowed from Italian bandito.

• IPA^(key): /bǎndiːt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

bàndīt m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)

1. bandit

• “bandit”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

bandit c

1. (somewhat dated) a bandit, an outlaw (career criminal living outside of society, usually performing robberies or other violent crime, often in groups)

   Bovar och banditer, ni som sitter här och skiter, om ni något hjärta har, lämna lite papper kvar

   Crooks and bandits, you who sit here and shit, if you have a heart, leave some paper [left] [common outhouse poetry]

• enarmad bandit

• bov
• brottsling
• buse
• förbrytare
• gangster
• kriminell
• rånare
• rövare
• skurk
• tjuv

• bandit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bandit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)