highwaywoman
- noun
- /ˈhaɪˌweɪˌwʊmən/
- Archaic
:
mujer bandida
- Legends spoke of a daring highwaywoman who haunted the roads outside London in the eighteenth century.
Examples
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Dressed as a man, the highwaywoman stopped carriages and demanded their valuables.
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Many tales are told about the infamous highwaywoman who roamed the countryside.
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The infamous highwaywoman was finally apprehended after years of evading the authorities.
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The notorious highwaywoman was finally captured after years of evading the law.
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Dressed as a man, the highwaywoman stopped carriages and demanded their valuables.
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Legends spoke of a daring highwaywoman who haunted the roads outside London in the eighteenth century.
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The infamous highwaywoman was finally apprehended after years of evading the authorities.
Synonyms
4
9.9
A person on horseback who robbed travelers on roads
A person who stops and robs travelers on the road in the Old West, often from stagecoaches
A woman who robs shops or banks by threatening people with a gun
Antonyms
How Violent
7
9.8
108
4.6
- Archaic
186
1.0
754
1.0
19
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Highwaywoman comes from highway ('public road') and woman ('female') and is the female form of the better-known highwayman. So a highwaywoman is a woman who stopped travellers on the road to rob them.