MARAUDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marauder mean? 

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

1. someone who attacks in search of booty

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARAUDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who attacks in search of booty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

marauder; piranha; predator; vulture

Hypernyms ("marauder" is a kind of...):

aggressor; assailant; assaulter; attacker (someone who attacks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marauder"):

moss-trooper (a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland))

Derivation:

maraud (raid and rove in search of booty)

 Context examples 

Here was the ancient marauder up to his old tricks again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The forecastle was like an angry hive of bees aroused by some marauder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At daybreak they limped warily back to camp, to find the marauders gone and the two men in bad tempers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was so notorious in the house, that the masters and head-boys took pains to cut these marauders off at angles, and to get out of windows, and turn them out of the courtyard, before they could make the Doctor aware of their presence; which was sometimes happily effected within a few yards of him, without his knowing anything of the matter, as he jogged to and fro.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

White Fang was to her a wolf, the hereditary marauder who had preyed upon her flocks from the time sheep were first herded and guarded by some dim ancestor of hers.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So near did the wolves approach, that the dogs became frantic with terror, and it was necessary to replenish the fire from time to time in order to keep the adventurous marauders at safer distance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado—made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild.

(White Fang, by Jack London)