marauder

[ muh-raw-der ]

noun

1. someone who travels around plundering or pillaging:

   China built its famous Great Wall to keep out marauders from the steppes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of marauder¹

maraud ( def ) + -er ²( def )

Example Sentences

Raskin and his band of marauders kept snapping, kept living in the face of their counterparts.

From BBC

He was hesitant and fearful of the young marauder.

From BBC

He is only looking out for himself, seeking food and petrol to keep moving, but he stumbles on a commune of survivors hiding out in an oil refinery, and helps protect them from violent marauders.

From New York Times

With marauders assaulting the police and people dying at the Capitol, Gen. William J. Walker, then the commander of the D.C.

From New York Times

He spoke mostly in grunts and curses, but I gathered that he had been a marauder in the Caspian Sea, until even his fellow pirates had to be rid of him.

From Literature

Related Words

• bandit
• looter
• robber