Sellsword

Quick meaning: Sellsword is a noun meaning (usually fantasy) A mercenary.

Meaning

(usually fantasy) A mercenary.

More Meanings

1. (by extension figuratively, often derogatory) Someone who only works for money, in the manner of a mercenary.

Example Sentences

Bandit: It's those fool villagers...They think they can buy a bunch of sellswords to chase us away.

Your profession always charges high and never guarantees their work. No sellsword would stay alive if he demanded a sorcerer's terms.

One such warrior was Kothar, cast up by the sea in the northlands of his world, a sellsword and a mercenary, a wencher after the women of his day, a freebooter and a thief, at times, whose sword Frostfire was a magic sword.

Soccer is class warfare, a battle between the haves and the have-nots, and those with more money and resources always win. In soccer, The Empire is undefeated. And José Mourinho, the world's greatest sellsword, the man who has discovered nothing in soccer but how to win, is its face.

Word Forms

• sellswords
• sell-sword

Synonyms for sellsword

Depending on context, synonyms include mercenary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swordmage, swordmaker, swordsman, sworder, freelance, seller.

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