pirate

1. 1.

   copy illegally; of published material

   Broadersteal

   crime

2. 2.

   take arbitrarily or by force

   “The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami”

   Synonymscommandeerhijackhighjack

   Broaderseize

   Narrowerskyjackcarjack

   crime

Other forms of pirate

plural

pirates·

past tense

pirated·

present participle

pirating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pirate

What does pirate mean?

pirate means "someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pirate?

pirate has 2 syllables: pi-rate. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪɹət/.

What is another word for pirate?

Close synonyms include plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, literary pirate, buccaneer. 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 pirate a common word?

pirate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.