buccaneer

English Thesaurus

1. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (noun.person)

hypernym	:	despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler,
definition	:	someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) (noun.person)

hyponym	:	barbary pirate, corsair,
definition	:	a pirate along the Barbary Coast (noun.person)

hyponym	:	sea king,
definition	:	a Viking pirate chief (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	jean laffite, jean lafitte, laffite, lafitte,
definition	:	French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826) (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	henry morgan, morgan, sir henry morgan,
definition	:	a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688) (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	bartholomew roberts, roberts,
definition	:	a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722) (noun.person)

instance hyponym	:	blackbeard, edward teach, edward thatch, teach, thatch,
definition	:	an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) (noun.person)

2. live like a buccaneer (verb.stative)

hypernym	:	live,
definition	:	lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style (verb.stative)

3. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (noun.person)

derivation	:	buccaneer,
definition	:	live like a buccaneer (verb.stative)

derivation	:	piratical,
definition	:	characteristic of pirates (adj.pert)

4. live like a buccaneer (verb.stative)

derivation	:	buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover,
definition	:	someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (noun.person)

5. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (noun.person)

derivation	:	buccaneer,
definition	:	live like a buccaneer (verb.stative)

derivation	:	piratical,
definition	:	characteristic of pirates (adj.pert)

6. live like a buccaneer (verb.stative)

derivation	:	buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover,
definition	:	someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (noun.person)