Usually means: Person who steals others' belongings.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word thief:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. thief: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thief: Merriam-Webster
  3. thief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thief: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thief: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thief, thief: Wordnik
  8. thief: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thief: Wiktionary
  10. thief: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thief: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thief: Dictionary.com
  14. thief: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. thief: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Thief (Turner novel), The Thief (film), The Thief (hotel), The Thief, Thief (Apple II game), Thief (Destroyer album), Thief (Dungeons & Dragons), Thief (Our Lady Peace song), Thief (TV miniseries), Thief (TV series), Thief (arcade game), Thief (character class), Thief (disambiguation), Thief (film), Thief (game), Thief (miniseries), Thief (movie), Thief (series), Thief (soundtrack), Thief (video game), Thief: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thief: Rhymezone
  20. thief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thief: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Thief: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. thief: FreeDictionary.org
  24. thief: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. thief: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. thief: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. thief: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thief: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THIEF: Acronym Finder
  3. thief: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Thief (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. thief, thief: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. thief: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See thiefing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who carries out a theft.
noun:  One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
noun:  (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.

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