freebooter

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Etymology

From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster.

In classic literature

Synonyms

plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider

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