What does freebooter mean?
Definitions for freebooter
ˈfriˌbu tərfree·boot·er
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Princeton's WordNet
plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooternoun
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Wiktionary
freebooternoun
An adventurer who pillages, plunders or wages ad-hoc war on other nations.
Etymology: Calque of vrijbuiter, from vrij + buit + -er, from whence also filibuster.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Freebooternoun
A robber; a plunderer; a pillager.
Etymology: free and booty.
The Kentishmen, perceiving that Perkin was not followed by any English of name, and that his forces consisted mostly of base people and freebooters, fitter to spoil a coast than to recover a kingdom, professed their loyalty to the king. Francis Bacon.
The earl of Warwick had, as often as he met with any Irish frigates, or such freebooters as sailed under their commission, taken all the seamen who became prisoners to them of that nation, and bound them back to back, and thrown them overboard into the sea. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
Webster Dictionary
Freebooternoun
one who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber
Etymology: [D. vrijbuiter, fr. vrijbuiten to plunder; vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and cf. Filibuster.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
freebooter
One who wanders about for plunder; a robber; a pillager; a plunderer.
Etymology and Origins
Freebooter
See “Filibuster.”
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of freebooter in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of freebooter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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