Definitions for freebooter

freebooter free·boot·er

Spelling: [free-boo-ter]
IPA: /ˈfriˌbu tər/

Freebooter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in freebooter (beeefoorrt).

Definitions for freebooter

noun

  1. a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.

Origin of freebooter

1560-70; Anglicization of Dutch vrijbuiter, equivalent to vrij free + buit booty1 + -er -er1

Examples for freebooter

The taxpayer in him was stronger than the freebooter, after all.

He was a freebooter with most of the virtues and vices of his kind.

It was nothing—only the quip of a witty fellow, descendant of a Spanish freebooter.

She was riding away with a freebooter, a road-agent, to be held for ransom.

He had the Viking spirit, and he burnt with a freebooter's passion for the sea.

True, the law said it was his, but the law did not mean to reward the freebooter; yet that is exactly what it did.

They entertained the freebooter, and like him have long since mouldered to ashes.

They thought that his purpose was merely that of a freebooter.

Nor was the freebooter's conversation more in accord with his surroundings.

"Let us enter," said the freebooter, preceding his companions.

Word Value for freebooter
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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