buccaneer

English - Turkish

Definition of buccaneer in English Turkish dictionary

deniz eşkıyası

korsan

(isim) korsan

deniz eskiyası

korsanlık yapmak

Related Terms

pirate

korsan

Başkan Roosevelt'e bir korsan dediler. - They called President Roosevelt a pirate.

Korsan olduğumuza inandıralım. - Let's make believe that we're pirates.

pirate

{s} izinsiz yayın yapan

pirate

{s} yasadışı

pirate

korsanlık yapmak

pirate

korsan satış yapmak

buccaneering

korsanlık

pirate

{f} korsanlık yap

pirate

başkasının eserini izin almadan yayımlamak

pirate

{f} yağmalamak

pirate

piracykorsanlık

pirate

{f} izinsiz yayınlamak

pirate

(isim) korsan, korsan gemisi, korsan yayın yapan kimse, korsan çalışan araç

pirate

izinsiz olarak yayımlama

pirate

(fiil) yağmalamak, talan etmek, izinsiz yayınlamak

pirate

intikal

pirate

korsan satış yap

pirate

{i} korsan yayın yapan kimse

pirate

{i} korsan çalışan araç

English - English

Definition of buccaneer in English English dictionary

Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation

A pirate

To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships

In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main.

{n} a pirate, a free-booter

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber

If you describe someone as a buccaneer, you mean that they are clever and successful, especially in business, but you do not completely trust them. Any of the British, French, or Dutch sea adventurers who chiefly haunted the Caribbean and the Pacific seaboard of South America during the latter part of the 17th century, preying on Spanish settlements and shipping. Though inspired by such privateers as Englishman Francis Drake, the buccaneers were not legitimate privateers (the commissions they held were seldom valid), but neither were they the outlawed pirates who flourished in the 18th century. Usually escaped servants, former soldiers, or loggers, they ran their ships democratically, divided plunder equitably, and even provided a form of accident insurance. They influenced the founding of the South Sea Co., and stories of their adventures inspired more serious voyages of exploration as well as the tales of writers Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Robert Louis Stevenson

live like a buccaneer

{i} pirate

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries

A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries

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

Related Terms

buccaneering

bold, reckless and unscrupulous

buccaneering

{i} piracy, robbery at sea

buccaneering

{s} exhibiting boldness and initiative (in business for example)

buccaneering

robbery on the high seas; piracy

buccaneering

If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money. a buccaneering British businessman

buccaneers

plural of buccaneer

Hyphenation

buc·ca·neer

Turkish pronunciation

bʌkınir

Synonyms

pirate

Pronunciation

/ˌbəkəˈnēr/ /ˌbʌkəˈniːr/

Etymology

[ "b&-k&-'nir ] (noun.) circa 1690. French boucanier.