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- Dictionaryma·raud·er/məˈrôdər/
noun
- 1. a person who marauds; a raider: "a band of English marauders were surprised and overcome"
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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."
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.
Definition of marauder noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Noun. Filter. noun. marauders. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder. A band of marauders. Wiktionary. A band of outlaws who raid and pillage. Wiktionary. By extension anything which marauds. Wiktionary. Synonyms: piranha. vulture. predator. plunderer. buccaneer. bandit. robber. ravager. desperado. pillager. looter. raider.
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.
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.
to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory. v.t. to raid for plunder (often used passively): At the war's end the country had been marauded by returning bands of soldiers. n. [ Archaic.]the act of marauding.
