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

Urbane and witty, they packed coffeehouses and college auditoriums with a repertoire that mixed straight-faced folk standards like “The Hammer Song” and cheeky tunes like “Have Some Madeira, M’Dear,” “The Ballad of Sigmund Freud” and “Charlie the Midnight Marauder.”

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

Hamler was the last living Marauder, the daughter of a late former Marauder, Jonnie Melillo Clasen, told Stars and Stripes.

From Seattle Times

Shek Yeung, a freed sex slave, becomes a cutthroat and power-hungry marauder slicing her way through epic sea battles against the Qing Empire and East India Company.

From Los Angeles Times

The book, which contained a dedication to her, was sold along with her original competition entry which was in the form of a folding document inspired by the series' magical Marauder's Map.

From BBC

Related Words

• bandit
• looter
• robber