PLUNDERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plunderer mean? 

• PLUNDERER (noun)
  The noun PLUNDERER has 1 sense:

1. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

  Familiarity information: PLUNDERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUNDERER (noun)

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 ("plunderer" 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 "plunderer"):

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)

Derivation:

plunder (steal goods; take as spoils)

plunder (plunder (a town) after capture)