Buccaneer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A pirate, especially one of the freebooters who preyed on Spanish shipping in the West Indies during the 17th century.
  • n. A ruthless speculator or adventurer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.
  • n. A pirate.
  • v. To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. live like a buccaneer
  • n. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    live   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    bucanier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pirate    desperado   
    Rhyme
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    marauder    corsair    highwayman    privateer    pirate    outlaw    freebooters    desperado    raider    banditti