SEA ROVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea rover mean? 

• SEA ROVER (noun)
  The noun SEA ROVER has 1 sense:

1. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

  Familiarity information: SEA ROVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA ROVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover

Hypernyms ("sea rover" is a kind of...):

despoiler; freebooter; looter; pillager; plunderer; raider; spoiler (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

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

Barbary pirate; corsair (a pirate along the Barbary Coast)

sea king (a Viking pirate chief)

Instance hyponyms:

Jean Laffite; Jean Lafitte; Laffite; Lafitte (French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826))

Henry Morgan; Morgan; Sir Henry Morgan (a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688))

Bartholomew Roberts; Roberts (a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722))

Blackbeard; Edward Teach; Edward Thatch; Teach; Thatch (an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718))