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| Date: | 1200-1300 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | pirata, from Greek peirates, from peiran 'to attack' |
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pi‧rate1
[countable]
[countable]1 someone who sails on the seas, attacking other boats and stealing things from them [↪ piracy]
2 someone who dishonestly copies and sells another person's work [↪ piracy]: Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.
Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.3 illegal radio or television broadcasts, or the station sending them out
pirate radio/TV (station)
AMT —piratical adjective literary
adjective literary