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 Definitions of buccaneer  [ˌbʌk əˈnɪər]  

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Definition of 'buccaneer' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) buccaneer
a pirate, esp. one who raided Spanish colonies and ships along the American coast in the second half of the 17th century.

Etymology:  (1655–65; < F boucanier, lit., barbecuer)

Definition of 'buccaneer' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

2. (verb) buccaneer
live like a buccaneer


Definition of 'buccaneer' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) buccaneer
a robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries

2. (verb) buccaneer
to act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber


Translation of 'buccaneer' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a type of pirate.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: seerower, vrybuiter Arabic flag Arabic: قُرصان Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: пират
Brazilian flag Brazilian: bucaneiro Czech flag Czech: bukanýr German flag German: der Seeräuber
Danish flag Danish: sørøver Greek flag Greek: κουρσάρος Spanish flag Spanish: bucanero
Estonian flag Estonian: mereröövel Farsi flag Farsi: دزد دریایی Finnish flag Finnish: bukanieeri
French flag French: boucanier Hebrew flag Hebrew: שוֹדֵד יָם Hindi flag Hindi: समूद्री डाकू
Croatian flag Croatian: gusar Hungarian flag Hungarian: kalóz Indonesian flag Indonesian: bajak laut
Italian flag Italian: bucaniere Japanese flag Japanese: 海賊 Korean flag Korean: 해적
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: piratas, korsaras Latvian flag Latvian: pirāts; jūras laupītājs Malay flag Malay: lanun
Dutch flag Dutch: boekanier Norwegian flag Norwegian: sjørøver Polish flag Polish: korsarz
Persian flag Persian: دزد دریایی Pashto flag Pashto: دریایی غل Portuguese flag Portuguese: pirata
Romanian flag Romanian: corsar Russian flag Russian: пират Slovak flag Slovak: pirát, korzár
Slovenian flag Slovenian: pirat Serbian flag Serbian: pirat Swedish flag Swedish: sjörövare
Thai flag Thai: โจรสลัด Turkish flag Turkish: korsan Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 海盜
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: пірат Urdu flag Urdu: بحری قزاق Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cướp biển
Chinese flag Chinese: 海盗

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