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Freebooter vs Cateran - What's the difference?

freebooter | cateran |

As nouns the difference between freebooter and cateran

is that freebooter is an adventurer who pillages, plunders or wages ad-hoc war on other nations while cateran is a Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.

freebooter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An adventurer who pillages, plunders or wages ad-hoc war on other nations.
  • One who rehosts online media without authorization; one who freeboots.

    • Synonyms

    * pirate * mercenary * conquistador

    Derived terms

    * freebooting

    Related terms

    * filibuster

    Coordinate terms

    * privateer

    cateran

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
  • *:And the great-grandson of Cospatric, he joined the English against the cateran Wallace […].
  • * 2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p. 41:
    • They found the hire of lawyers more cost-effective than the maintenance of caterans .
  • A freebooter, marauder.