What's the difference between highwayman and highwaymen?
Highwayman
Definition:
(n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liverpool have finally decided that giving £32.5m to Aston Villa for Christian Benteke is the equivalent of jumping out of the carriage into the roadside bushes and meekly handing their wares to the hiding highwayman.
(2) In particular, seeking an injunction before you offer FRAND licensing terms is the highwayman's method and breaches the standards agreement.
(3) The 210 bus winds up the hill to Hampstead Heath in north London , passing Harry Styles’s house on one side, a 17th-century highwayman’s inn on the other, under the overhanging branches of the ancient oaks and sycamores.
(4) Like Adam Ant’s dandy highwayman , he’d have been in his element in the 17th century.
Highwaymen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Highwayman
Example Sentences:
(1) Also during the 1980s, Cash teamed up with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson to form the successful recording and touring outfit, the Highwaymen.
(2) Most of the dunes are hidden by pines – the forest was planted here in the 1920s to give us timber for future wars – and the highwaymen long gone.
(3) When the Roebuck was renovated in the 1950s, a cache of 18th-century highwaymen’s loot was discovered in the roof.
(4) The area became famed for its atrociously bad travel: soft dunes, scorching in summer and infested with highwaymen at night.