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Marauder vs Cateran - What's the difference?

marauder | cateran |

As nouns the difference between marauder and cateran

is that marauder is someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder while cateran is (historical) a highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a scottish clan.

marauder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
  • A band of outlaws who raid and pillage.
  • By extension anything which marauds.

    • 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.