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Synonyms for plunderer

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pluhn-der
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplʌn dər

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Définition of plunderer

Origin :
  • 1630s, from German plündern, from Middle High German plunderen "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder (n.) "household goods, clothes," also "lumber, baggage" (14c.; cf. Modern German Plunder "lumber, trash"), which is related to Middle Dutch plunder "household goods;" Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes." A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and applied in native use after the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. Related: Plundered; plundering. Plunderbund was a U.S. colloquial word from 1914 referring to "a corrupt alliance of corporate and financial interests," with German Bund "alliance, league."
  • noun robber
Example sentences :
  • Well, well, I fear not for my child, she has no wealth to tempt a plunderer.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor » by Stephen Cullen Carpenter
  • The Turk has always been a plunderer and has cursed everything he touched.
  • Extract from : « Birdseye Views of Far Lands » by James T. Nichols
  • In 1013 Svend appeared no longer as a plunderer but as a conqueror.
  • Extract from : « A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) » by Samuel R. Gardiner.
  • Plunderer and plundered stare at each other for a moment; and that is all.
  • Extract from : « Bramble-bees and Others » by J. Henri Fabre
  • She also had $36 in silver, which the plunderer of the body did not get.
  • Extract from : « The Red Record » by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • And being within the Union lines no plunderer had dared to touch it.
  • Extract from : « The Tree of Appomattox » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • A very small time after our plunderer met with an old shepherd, who had sold a good parcel of sheep.
  • Extract from : « Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences » by Arthur L. Hayward
  • The great-coat took the plunderer's fancy; he took it down off the peg, and there stood Carter before him!
  • Extract from : « Eric » by Frederic William Farrar
  • There is true political economy shaking hands with the plunderer of the Saxon!
  • Extract from : « Scottish Loch Scenery » by Thomas A. Croal
  • The unregenerate Teuton was a pirate and a plunderer; the settled Saxon became an oversea trader and trafficker.
  • Extract from : « The Annals of Willenhall » by Frederick William Hackwood

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