Usually means: Robber, usually on horseback, roads.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word highwayman:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. highwayman: Merriam-Webster
  2. highwayman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. highwayman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. highwayman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. highwayman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Highwayman, highwayman: Wordnik
  7. highwayman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. highwayman: Wiktionary
  9. highwayman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. highwayman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. highwayman: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Highwayman, highwayman: Dictionary.com
  13. Highwayman (Glen Campbell album), Highwayman (The Highwaymen album), Highwayman (disambiguation), Highwayman (song), Highwayman, The Highwayman (TV series), The Highwayman (film), The Highwayman (musical), The Highwayman (novel), The Highwayman (poem), The Highwayman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Highwayman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. highwayman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. highwayman: Rhymezone
  17. Highwayman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. highwayman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. highwayman: FreeDictionary.org
  20. highwayman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. highwayman: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. highwayman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Highwayman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Highwayman (disambiguation), Highwayman: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HIGHWAYMAN, HIGHWAYMAN, HIGHWAYMAN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Highwayman: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See highwaymans as well.)

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noun:  (historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.

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