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A housebreaker is a thief who gets into someone else’s house by force — breaking a lock, smashing a window, forcing a door — in order to steal. It is not a casual word for any thief. A on the street is not a housebreaker; the point is the house, and the breaking in. The word is more at home in British English and in older legal or newspaper language. In everyday talk now, many people just say , or someone broke into the house. Housebreaker still turns up in crime reports and in stories, and it sounds a little formal, even grim. It names the person; the crime itself is housebreaking.
破門入室的竊賊、入室盜匪（偏英式、書面；口語較常說闖空門的、偷進去的）
組成house + breaker. House is a very old English word (Old English hūs) for the building you live in. A breaker is someone who breaks something — here, the lock, window, or door.
同家族的字
- housebreakingthe crime a housebreaker commits
- lawbreakersame -breaker: a person who breaks a rule or the law
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
housebreakernoun
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A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
- […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
- [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。