A renowned tactician, Christopher Columbus once downed an entire pirate fleet by stealing all of their fruits and vegetables, thus giving them scurvy.
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Pirate
//ˈpaɪɹət//
Synonyms for "pirate" (134 found)
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Closest matches (27)
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Related words (67)
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7 entriesRelated terms
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
at location
1 entriescapable of
8 entriesderived
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
desires
1 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
5 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
235 translations across 84 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- seerower noun (one who plunders at sea)
Albanian
1 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πειρατής noun (one who plunders at sea)
Arabic
1 entries- قُرْصَان noun (one who plunders at sea)
Armenian
1 entries- ծովահեն noun (one who plunders at sea)
Asturian
1 entries- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Belarusian
1 entries- піра́т noun (one who plunders at sea)
Bengali
1 entries- জলদস্যু noun (one who plunders at sea)
Breton
1 entries- morlaer noun (one who plunders at sea)
Bulgarian
3 entries- пира́т noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пиратски кораб noun (armed ship)
- плагиат noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Burmese
1 entries- ပင်လယ်ဓားပြ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Catalan
3 entries- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- piratejar verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 海盜 /海盗 noun (one who plunders at sea)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 海盜 /海盗 noun (one who plunders at sea)
- 海盜船 /海盗船 noun (armed ship)
- 海賊 /海贼 noun (one who plunders at sea)
- 盜版業者 /盗版业者 noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Cornish
2 entries- morlader noun (one who plunders at sea)
- morladres noun (one who plunders at sea)
Czech
2 entries- pirát noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirát noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Danish
4 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- sørøver noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piratkopiere verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Dutch
4 entries- gepirateerd adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- boekanier noun (one who plunders at sea)
- kaper noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piraat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Esperanto
3 entries- marrabisto noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirato noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirati verb (engage in piracy)
Estonian
3 entries- mereröövel noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piraat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piraat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Faroese
2 entries- piratur noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- sjórænari noun (one who plunders at sea)
Finnish
4 entries- piraatti adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- merirosvo noun (one who plunders at sea)
- merirosvolaiva noun (armed ship)
- piraatti noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
French
4 entries- piraté adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- boucanier (buccaneer) noun (one who plunders at sea)
- corsaire noun (one who plunders at sea)
- flibustier noun (one who plunders at sea)
Galician
4 entries- barco pirata noun (armed ship)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- piratear verb (appropriate by piracy)
Georgian
1 entries- მეკობრე noun (one who plunders at sea)
German
4 entries- Korsar noun (one who plunders at sea)
- Pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- Pirat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- Raubkopierer noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Greek
4 entries- πειρατικός adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- πειρατής noun (one who plunders at sea)
- πειρατής noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- πειρατίνα noun (one who plunders at sea)
Gujarati
1 entries- ચાંચિયો noun (one who plunders at sea)
Hebrew
2 entries- בּוּקָנִיר noun (one who plunders at sea)
- שׁוֹדֵד יָם noun (one who plunders at sea)
Hindi
4 entries- जलडाकू noun (one who plunders at sea)
- जलदस्यु noun (one who plunders at sea)
- जहाज़ी डाकू noun (one who plunders at sea)
- दस्यु-जहाज़ noun (armed ship)
Hungarian
4 entries- kalóz adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- kalóz noun (one who plunders at sea)
- kalóz noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- kalózhajó noun (armed ship)
Icelandic
2 entries- sjóræningi adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- sjóræningi noun (one who plunders at sea)
Ido
1 entries- pirato noun (one who plunders at sea)
Indonesian
1 entries- bajak laut noun (one who plunders at sea)
Irish
2 entries- foghlaí mara noun (one who plunders at sea)
- píoráid noun (one who plunders at sea)
Italian
4 entries- bucaniere noun (one who plunders at sea)
- corsaro noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirateggiare verb (appropriate by piracy)
Japanese
3 entries- 海賊 noun (one who plunders at sea)
- 海賊 noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- 海賊船 noun (armed ship)
Kannada
4 entries- ಕಡಲುಗಳ್ಳ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ಕೃತಿ ಚೋರ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ಸಮುದ್ರಚೋರ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ಸ್ವಾಮ್ಯ ಚೋರ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Kazakh
2 entries- пират noun (one who plunders at sea)
- қарақшы noun (one who plunders at sea)
Khmer
1 entries- ចោរ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Korean
2 entries- 해적 noun (one who plunders at sea)
- 해적선 noun (armed ship)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- каракчы noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пират noun (one who plunders at sea)
Lao
3 entries- ສລັດ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ສະຫລັດ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ໂຈນສລັດ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Latin
1 entries- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
Latvian
1 entries- pirāts noun (one who plunders at sea)
Lithuanian
2 entries- jūrinas noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piratas noun (one who plunders at sea)
Macedonian
2 entries- гусар noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пират noun (one who plunders at sea)
Malay
3 entries- cetak rompak adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- lanun noun (one who plunders at sea)
- mencetak rompak verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Maltese
1 entries- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
Māori
2 entries- kaipāhua tai noun (one who plunders at sea)
- kaitiora noun (one who plunders at sea)
Norman
1 entries- pirate noun (one who plunders at sea)
Norwegian
3 entries- piratkopiert adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- piratkopiere verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- sjørøver noun (one who plunders at sea)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- sjørøvar noun (one who plunders at sea)
Occitan
1 entries- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
Old English
1 entries- wīċing noun (one who plunders at sea)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قرصان noun (one who plunders at sea)
- ملك noun (one who plunders at sea)
Persian
1 entries- دزد دریایی noun (one who plunders at sea)
Polish
4 entries- piracki adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- bukanier noun (one who plunders at sea)
- korsarz noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Portuguese
4 entries- pirateado adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- bucaneiro noun (one who plunders at sea)
- corsário noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
Romanian
1 entries- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Russian
4 entries- пира́тский adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- корса́р noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пира́т noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пира́т noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- spùinneadair noun (one who plunders at sea)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gusar noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- гусар noun (one who plunders at sea)
- пират noun (one who plunders at sea)
Sicilian
3 entries- navi pirata noun (armed ship)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Slovak
1 entries- pirát noun (one who plunders at sea)
Slovene
2 entries- gusar noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Somali
1 entries- burcad badeed noun (one who plunders at sea)
Spanish
4 entries- barco pirata noun (armed ship)
- bucanero noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
Swahili
1 entries- haramia noun (one who plunders at sea)
Swedish
4 entries- buckanjär noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- sjörövare noun (one who plunders at sea)
Tagalog
4 entries- lintawanin noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirata noun (one who plunders at sea)
- tulisang-dagat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- mamirata verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Tajik
4 entries- дузд noun (one who plunders at sea)
- карақчи noun (one who plunders at sea)
- роҳзани баҳрӣ noun (one who plunders at sea)
- роҳзани дарёӣ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Tamil
2 entries- கடற்கொள்ளைக்காரன் noun (one who plunders at sea)
- கடற்கொள்ளையன் noun (one who plunders at sea)
Telugu
1 entries- దొంగవాడ noun (one who plunders at sea)
Thai
1 entries- โจรสลัด noun (one who plunders at sea)
Tibetan
1 entries- མཚོ་ཇག noun (one who plunders at sea)
Turkish
4 entries- korsan adj (illegal imitated or reproduced)
- korsan noun (one who plunders at sea)
- korsan noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- korsan satış yapmak verb (make and/or sell an illegal copy)
Turkmen
2 entries- garakçy noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
Ukrainian
1 entries- піра́т noun (one who plunders at sea)
Uzbek
3 entries- dengiz qaroqchisi noun (one who plunders at sea)
- pirat noun (one who plunders at sea)
- qaroqchi noun (one who plunders at sea)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cướp biển noun (one who plunders at sea)
- hải tặc noun (one who plunders at sea)
Welsh
3 entries- copïwr anghyfreithlon noun (one who breaks intellectual property laws)
- môr-leidr noun (one who plunders at sea)
- môr-ysbeiliwr noun (one who plunders at sea)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Christopher Columbus enjoyed the torrents of Pirate Bay and would often go surfing there.
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After torturing a fortune-teller by tickling him to death for several hours, Christopher Columbus placed the noob toy in a treasure chest with the inscription: "To the great pirate of the future Al-Sayib: Noobs always deserve it."
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The Pirate Party could mature into a political driving force.
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