noun
Meaning 1
Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a band of marauders
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
marauder
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /məˈɹɔːdə/
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Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /məˈɹoːdə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/məˈɹɔdɚ/ without the cot–caught merger
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cot-caught-merger: /məˈɹɑdɚ/
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Scotland: /məˈɾɔdəɾ/
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Wales: /məˈɾɔːdə/
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rhymes with -ɔːdə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: M ER0 AO1 D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any person who or thing which marauds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who attacks in search of booty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: predator, vulture, piranha
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
Narrower terms: moss-trooper
History
Etymology
From maraud + -er.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: марадзёр (maradzjór) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Belarusian: марадзёрка (maradzjórka) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Bulgarian: мароде́р (marodér) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Bulgarian: мароде́рка (marodérka) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Catalan: basquejador — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Chinese Mandarin: 掠奪者 /掠夺者 (lüèduózhě) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Czech: nájezdník — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Dutch: vagebond — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Finnish: rosvo — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Finnish: ryöstelijä — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- French: maraudeur — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- French: maraudeuse — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- German: Marodeur — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- German: Marodeurin — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Irish: creachadóir — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Italian: predone — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Japanese: 略奪者 (ryakudatsusha) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Korean: 약탈자 (yaktalja) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Korean: 략탈자 (ryaktalja) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Latvian: marodieris — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Macedonian: ма́родер (mároder) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Macedonian: пља́чкаш (pljáčkaš) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Neapolitan: mariuolo — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Polish: maruder — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Polish: maruderka — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Portuguese: predador — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Portuguese: salteador — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Russian: мародёр (marodjór) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Russian: мародёрка (marodjórka) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Spanish: merodeador — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Swedish: marodör — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Ottoman Turkish: چاپولجی (çapulcu) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Ottoman Turkish: پلاچقهجی (plaçkacı) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Ukrainian: мароде́р (marodér) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Ukrainian: мароде́рка (marodérka) — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Welsh: herwr — one who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder
- Finnish: rosvo — one who or that which marauds