Definitions for privateer

privateer pri·va·teer

Spelling: [prahy-vuh-teer]
IPA: /ˌpraɪ vəˈtɪər/

Privateer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in privateer (aeeiprrtv).

Definitions for privateer

noun

  1. an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
  2. privateersman.

verb (used without object)

  1. to cruise as a privateer.

Origin of privateer

1640-50; private + -eer, modeled on volunteer

Examples for privateer

His own nephew was said to be among them; but him he would not serve, as he had been captured in a privateer.

We convoyed to keep the Alabama, a Confederate privateer, away.

If I fell in with an enemy's cruiser or a privateer I must expect to be stripped.

Was n't he a smuggler, or a privateer's-man, or something of the kind?

This heritage has so influenced his cuisine that Roellinger is often referred to as "the privateer chef."

One of her courtiers bet that Clark Gable as Rhett Butler would be her ideal, “a privateer, a romantic, and a fabulous cad.”

Check out privateer Holdings, a venture-capital firm based in Seattle that is about to close on $7 million in funding.

We laughed at him, and advised him to be quiet and put us aboard the privateer.

Are you he who commanded the "Dwarf" privateer in the Isle of France?'

There was no sign of privateer or pirate, as far as the eye could reach.

Word Value for privateer
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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