looter vs buccaneer

looter and buccaneer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
looter	Yes	No	No	No
buccaneer	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, buccaneer is a hyponym of looter; that is, buccaneer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than looter:

looter: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
buccaneer: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

Other hyponyms of looter include pirate, sea robber, sea rover.

looter (noun)	buccaneer (noun)
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)	someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

looter (verb)	buccaneer (verb)
	live like a buccaneer