Marauder
//məˈɹɔdɚ// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
"a band of marauders"
- 2 someone who attacks in search of booty wordnet
- 3 Any person who or thing which marauds.
Example
More examples"Hunger, however, was ever on hand; then he had to become a marauder; dig some potatoes, and cook them in a corner of a wood, or pilfer the orchards."
Etymology
From maraud + -er.
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