Meanings
plural pillagers
- A person who pillages.
And then there were those who died and were martyred in the struggle to maintain a Jewish lifestyle, murdered at the hands of deathmongers, pillagers […]
2002, Reuven P Bulka, Modern folk Judaism: the reality and the challenge2 more examples
...the hills of the robbers, predatorious oppreſſors of true Religion, pillagers and ſpoilers of the Church of Chriſt, of which too many ſad inſtances have been in ancient and later daies both at home and abroad.
1659, John Gauden, Ἰερα Δακρυα. Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria. The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England, London: R. Royston, page 495Wall labels, if you read them, will prepare you for the shift from the conventional picture of the terrible Turk, the ravisher, the torturer, the pillager (see T. E. Lawrence) and the Turk of the massacres (see Delacroix and others).
1973 November 24, John Canaday, “Art: Echoes of Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsomeone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech plenitel
- plenitelone who pillages
French pilleur
- pilleurone who pillages
Irish sladaí, sladaire
- sladaíone who pillages
- sladaireone who pillages
Italian predone, saccheggiatore
- predoneone who pillages
- saccheggiatoreone who pillages
- sciacalloone who pillages
Latin praedātor
- praedātorone who pillages
Māori kaipāhua, kaipāhuahua
- kaipāhuaone who pillages
- kaipāhuahuaone who pillages
Portuguese pilhador
- pilhadorone who pillages
Russian погро́мщик, мародёр
- погро́мщик (pogrómščik)one who pillages
- мародёр (marodjór)one who pillages
Slovak plieniteľ
- plieniteľone who pillages
Spanish saqueador
- saqueadorone who pillages
Cite this entry
pillager. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pillager
“pillager.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pillager. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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