English Dictionary

dacoit

IPA（発音記号）

/dəˈkɔɪt/

名詞

インド ミャンマー文字 国名

(chiefly India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.

日本語の意味

（主にインド、ミャンマー、パキスタンにおいて）武装強盗または盗賊。

The remote village lived in fear after a dacoit robbed the grain store one night.

辺鄙な村はある晩、穀物倉を襲って略奪した盗賊を恐れて暮らしていた。

意味（1）

(chiefly India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.

[…] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.

dacoits （ plural ）