sea robber

Questions about sea robber

What does sea robber mean?

sea robber means "someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation".

What is another word for sea robber?

Close synonyms include pirate, buccaneer, 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 sea robber a common word?

sea robber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.