Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who marauds; a rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; especially, one of a number of soldiers or of an organized band engaged in spoliation.
- noun Synonyms Freebooter, etc. See
robber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder. (e.g. a band of marauders)
- noun A band of outlaws who raid and pillage.
- noun By extension anything which
marauds .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who attacks in search of booty
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
The Southland 2010
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It was a faithful likeness of the movie poster for Jurassic Park, with that distinctive script spelling out "When lizards ruled the earth", but instead of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the marauder was a massive fanged gecko looking for something to devour.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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He was called a marauder, a cat burglar and the artful dodger, and, to quote him, he says at one point, the more exuberant members of the party opposite have for some years, at elections at any rate, been accustomed to salute me by the expression ` murderer 'and from that point of view,' robber 'is sort of a promotion.
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This marauder was a Tartar, who had been a soldier and deserted.
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For his dissertation, he studied Pheidologeton, commonly known as marauder ants, under the Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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For his dissertation, he studied Pheidologeton, commonly known as marauder ants, under the Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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For his dissertation, he studied Pheidologeton, commonly known as marauder ants, under the Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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This time, the marauder was a relatively young fox - and no match for the new cockerel Dude and his hens Izzy, Pongo and Pecky.
Latest Articles dailymail.co.uk 2010
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For his dissertation, he studied Pheidologeton, commonly known as marauder ants, under the Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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"marauder," from writing about a personage whom Stubbs might have written about, though he had not.
The Life of Froude 1894
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The black marauder, hauled by love
from "Pursuit," Sylvia Plath
April 8, 2008