sea rover

短语

n. 海盗

词形变化

sea rovers 复数 sea rovers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A herring.

    古体 非正式
  2. 2.

    One who travels the ocean; one who spends a great deal of time at sea.

  3. 3.

    A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.

    1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp. lvi-lvij, […] there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither place to inhabite in neither seketh any staye to liue by, but hauyng been either condempned of Felonies, & prison breakers, runne from the warres and sea rouers, departed from the kynges guarrisons, and loyterers, whereby thei become desperate persons […]

    New York American, The turning of your ship into a sea-rover would have made the entire ocean a scene of outrage, rapine, and murder.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

pirate buccaneer sea-robber

上位词 7

spoiler raider despoiler freebooter looter pillager plunderer

下位词 2

corsair sea king

词源

Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.

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