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FREEBOOTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does freebooter mean?
• FREEBOOTER (noun)
The noun FREEBOOTER has 1 sense:
1. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Familiarity information: FREEBOOTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
despoiler; freebooter; looter; pillager; plunderer; raider; spoiler
Hypernyms ("freebooter" is a kind of...):
stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)
Domain category:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freebooter"):
buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)
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