pirate
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)pirates
- someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were their ownSynonyms: plagiaristplagiarizerplagiariserliterary pirateType of thief, stealer
- someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nationSynonyms: buccaneersea robbersea roverType of plunderer, pillagerKinds corsair, sea queen, sea kingExamples Roberts, Morgan, Laffite, Teach
- a ship that is manned by piratesSynonyms: pirate shipType of shipKinds corsair
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Translations
Noun one who plunders at sea
- Spanish
- pirata
- French
- pirate
- German
- Pirat
- Italian
- pirata
- Portuguese
- pirata
- Turkish
- korsan
- Russian
- пира́т pirát
- Arabic
- قُرْصَان qurṣān
- Chinese
- 海盗 hǎidào
- Japanese
- 海賊 kaizoku
27 more languages
- Dutch
- piraat
- Polish
- pirat
- Swedish
- sjörövare
- Greek
- πειρατής peiratís
- Korean
- 해적 haejeok
- Indonesian
- bajak laut
- Vietnamese
- hải tặc
- Hungarian
- kalóz
- Portuguese (PT)
- pirata
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 海盜 hǎidào
- Catalan
- pirata
- Czech
- pirát
- Danish
- pirat
- Esperanto
- pirato
- Estonian
- piraat
- Finnish
- merirosvo
- Georgian
- მეკობრე meḳobre
- Hebrew
- שׁוֹדֵד יָם shodéd yam
- Icelandic
- sjóræningi
- Lithuanian
- piratas
- Norwegian
- pirat
- Romanian
- pirat
- Scottish Gaelic
- spùinneadair
- Serbo-Croatian
- pirat
- Slovenian
- gusar
- Swahili
- haramia
- Welsh
- môr-leidr
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. pirata, Gr. …, fr. … to attempt, undertake, from making attempts or attacks on ships, … an attempt, trial; akin to E. peril: cf. F. pirate. See Peril.
1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.
2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.
3. One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.
Pirate perch Zoology, a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.
Origin: Cf. F. pirater.
To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.
They advertised they would pirate his edition.— Alexander Pope
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<software, legal> Someone engaged in software piracy.
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