Word Meanings - PILLAGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who pillages. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PILLAGER)

• marauder
• Plunderer
• invader
• rover
• free-booter
• moss-trooper
• filibuster
• pillager
• guerilla
• bushwhacker

Related words: (words related to PILLAGER)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• INVADER
  One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
• BUSHWHACKER
  1. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving. 2. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses
• FILIBUSTER
  A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition
• FILIBUSTERISM
  The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.
• GUERILLA
  See GUERRILLA
• ROVER
  A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
• PILLAGER
  One who pillages. Pope.
• MARAUDER
  A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• RETROVERT
  To turn back.
• UNCONTROVERSORY
  Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• CONTROVERSOR
  A controverser.
• BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
  A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
• PROVERB
  1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
• PROVERBIALIST
  One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
• CONTROVERSARY
  Controversial. Bp. Hall.
• CONTROVERTIBLE
  Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
• CONTROVERSIAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.
• CONTROVERSION
  Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.
• CONTROVERSIALIST
  One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.
• INCONTROVERTIBLE
  Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable. Sir T. Browne. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In*con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.