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.

Words possibly related to "highwayman"

Words possibly related to "highwaymen"