Freebooter is an English word with synonyms like plunderer or pillager. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Freebooter in a sentence
Freebooter meaning
- An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot".
- One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
Using Freebooter
- The main meaning on this page is: An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot". | One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
- Useful related words include: plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler.
Context around Freebooter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Freebooter
- In this selection, "freebooter" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, robbed stand out and add context to how "freebooter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a freebooter robbed an and outlaw and freebooter who shared. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "freebooter" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with freebooter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A freebooter robbed an Avenue U bodega on May 30. (10 words)
He is described as Scotland’s answer to Robin Hood - an outlaw and freebooter who shared the spoils of his thieving campaign against the gentry with the poor of the north. (31 words)
He is described as Scotland’s answer to Robin Hood - an outlaw and freebooter who shared the spoils of his thieving campaign against the gentry with the poor of the north. (31 words)
A freebooter robbed an Avenue U bodega on May 30. (10 words)
Example sentences (2)
A freebooter robbed an Avenue U bodega on May 30.
He is described as Scotland’s answer to Robin Hood - an outlaw and freebooter who shared the spoils of his thieving campaign against the gentry with the poor of the north.