sea rover

Questions about sea rover

What does sea rover mean?

sea rover 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 rover?

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

sea rover 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.