booty

«booty» in Mova's school dictionary: goods taken by force or by theft, especially by robbers… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (no plural)

meaning for a pupil

Booty is goods taken by force or by theft, especially by robbers or soldiers in war; it can also mean a prize that is won. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, booty is the treasure that robbers or conquerors carry off, which is then shared out

examples

• The robbers counted their booty. tree →
• The pirates took a large booty of gold. tree →
• The Lion asked the Ass to divide the booty. tree →

note

if a problem asks you to share out a booty, it is a total to divide; the word itself gives no count

In the corpora

• For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. —

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «booty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.