buccaneer

1. 1.

   live like a buccaneer

   Broaderlive

Other forms of buccaneer

plural

buccaneers·

past tense

buccaneered·

present participle

buccaneering·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buccaneer

What does buccaneer mean?

buccaneer means "someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buccaneer?

buccaneer has 3 syllables: buc-ca-neer. The stress falls on "neer". In IPA it is /ˌbʌkəˈniɹ/.

What is another word for buccaneer?

Close synonyms include pirate, sea robber, sea rover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buccaneer a common word?

buccaneer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.