Noun: freebooter
| Singular | freebooter |
| Plural | freebooters |
Sample Sentences
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The military aspect should, however, be carefully studied, as the result may be to dispel the time-honoured connection between forest and freebooter under modern conditions with long-range rifles. [1901 May 10, G. H. Davies, “Forest in War”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 142:]
Nouns inflected like freebooter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster. See: Dutch Nouns '
vrijbuiter'.
Verbs referencing "freebooter"
English Nouns
filibuster.