housebreaker

1. 1.

   a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house

   Synonymscat burglar

   Broaderburglar
2. 2.

   a wrecker of houses

   “in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker”

   Synonymshousewrecker

   Broaderwrecker

Other forms of housebreaker

plural

housebreakers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about housebreaker

What does housebreaker mean?

housebreaker means "a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in housebreaker?

housebreaker has 5 syllables: ho-u-se-brea-ker. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for housebreaker?

Close synonyms include cat burglar, housewrecker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is housebreaker a common word?

housebreaker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.