| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| freebooter |
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| SYLLABICATION: | free·boot·er |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr  b  t r |
| NOUN: | A person who pillages and plunders, especially a pirate. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Dutch vrijbuiter, from vrijbuit, plunder : vrij, free; see pr - in Appendix I + buit, booty (from Middle Dutch b te, of Middle Low German origin).
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