Usually means: Person who commits maritime robbery acts.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pirate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pirate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pirate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pirate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pirate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pirate, pirate: Wordnik
  7. pirate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pirate, pirate: Wiktionary
  9. pirate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pirate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pirate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pirate: Dictionary.com
  13. pirate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pirate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pirate (Cher song), Pirate (dinghy), Pirate (disambiguation), Pirate (sexual slang), Pirate (steamboat), Pirate, The Pirate (novel), The Pirate (short story), The Pirate, The pirate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pirate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pirate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pirate: Rhymezone
  19. pirate (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. PIRATE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Pirate: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. pirate: Free Dictionary
  23. pirate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pirate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. pirate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  26. pirate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. pirate: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pirate: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. pirate: Netlingo
  3. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  4. pirate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PIRATE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pirate, pirate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pirate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See pirated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
noun:  An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
noun:  (by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
noun:  (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
noun:  A kind of marble in children's games.
verb:  (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
verb:  (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
verb:  (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
adjective:  Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
noun:  (sports) someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
noun:  (soccer) someone connected with Bristol Rovers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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