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pillager

pillager noun: a person who pillages.

Noun

pillager (plural pillagers)

  1. A person who pillages.
    • ...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 495
    • Wall 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

pillager meaning in Tamil and Urdu

pillager in Tamil

கொள்ளையர்

pillager in Urdu

غارتگر, لٹیرا

Forms of pillager

pluralpillagers

Origin of pillager

From pillage + -er.

Questions about pillager

What does pillager mean?
Pillager means a person who pillages.
What is pillager in Tamil?
Pillager in Tamil is கொள்ளையர். See Pillager meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pillager?
Pillager is a noun.
What is the plural of pillager?
The plural of pillager is pillagers.

Words near pillager in the dictionary

  1. pillaffs
  2. pillafs
  3. pillage
  4. pillageable
  5. pillaged
  6. pillager
  7. pillagers
  8. pillages
  9. pillageth
  10. pillaging
  11. pillagings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pillager (page history and authors); pillager (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pillager (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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