barbary pirate

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   a pirate along the Barbary Coast

   Synonymscorsair

   Broaderpirate

   NarrowerBarbarossa

Questions about barbary pirate

What does barbary pirate mean?

barbary pirate means "a pirate along the Barbary Coast".

What is another word for barbary pirate?

Close synonyms include corsair. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbary pirate a common word?

barbary pirate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.