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The meaning of MARAUDER is one who roams from place to place making attacks and raids in search of plunder : one that marauds. How to use marauder in a sentence.
MARAUDER definition: 1. a person or animal that goes from one place to another looking for people to kill or things to…. Learn more.
Marauder definition: someone who travels around plundering or pillaging. See examples of MARAUDER used in a sentence.
A marauder is someone who roams around looking for things to steal. You might hear news reports about a marauder breaking into cars in your neighborhood. The word marauder entered English in the 17th century, from the Middle French word maraud, meaning "rascal."
Definition of marauder noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe a group of people or animals as marauders, you mean they are unpleasant and dangerous, because they wander around looking for opportunities to steal or kill.
v. ma·raud·ed, ma·raud·ing, ma·rauds. v.intr. To rove and raid in search of plunder. v.tr. To raid or pillage for spoils. [French marauder, from maraud, tomcat, vagabond .] ma·raud′er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
