Botín in english
Booty
pronunciation: buti part of speech: noun
pronunciation: buti part of speech: noun
In gestures
botín1 = spoils ; booty ; plunder ; loot ; swag.
Example: As more colleges and university libraries pursue outside funding, the spoils increasingly will go to those institutions which are best prepared for the rigours of fundraising.Example: Greed and fearlessness linked the Elizabethan sea rover, the 18th-century naval captain hungry for prize money, and the early-Victorian soldier for whom the storming of an Indian city offered the chance of booty.Example: He established Samarkand as his imperial capital in the 1360s and set about aggrandising it with plunder from his conquests.Example: The robbers made a hole in the wall separating the two shops to gain access to the jewellery shop and make off with the loot.Example: While Pound was smashing down the front door, Eliot entered by the back door and made off with the swag.more:
» botín de guerra = war booty .
Example: Experts say a hoard of buried treasure discovered by a jobless English man is 'war booty' and probably belonged to a pagan king.» botín de guerra, el = spoils of war, the ; victor's spoils, the .
Example: The horrors of what women have had to endure as the human spoils of wars over time has had little examination and little if any punishment. Example: The city should be defended street by street and house by house, until, if taken, the victor's spoils should be alone a heap of ashes.» reparto del botín, el = division of spoils, the .
Example: But, firstly, the big German banks quarrelled among themselves over the division of the spoils.botín2 = bootee [bootie] ; ankle boot.
Example: After the defendant was arrested, the deputy sheriff measured the bootees worn by him and testified the heel and foot tracks of the bootees were identical.Example: The great thing about ankle boots is that they can be worn with just about anything.