Usually means: Person who illegally enters, steals.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word burglar:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. burglar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. burglar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burglar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burglar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burglar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Burglar, burglar: Wordnik
  7. burglar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. burglar: Wiktionary
  9. burglar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. burglar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. burglar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. burglar: Dictionary.com
  13. burglar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. burglar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Burglar (comics), Burglar (disambiguation), Burglar (film), Burglar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Burglar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. burglar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. burglar: Rhymezone
  19. burglar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. burglar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. burglar: Free Dictionary
  22. burglar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. burglar: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. burglar: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. burglar: Legal dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See burglars as well.)

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noun:  A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To commit burglary; to burgle.

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