Synonyms for pirate
- noun
- verb
Most common
sea rover sea robber corsair buccaneer hi-jack viking bootlegger pirater
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Buccaneer — A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns
buccaneer, sea rover, corsair, sea robber, raider, robber, freebooter, picaroon, sea rat dated
2. Plagiarist
Other
Verb
steal, commandeer, plagiarize, plagiarise UK, pinch
Definitions
- n. 1
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
- n. 2
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- v. 1
To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
Related words
- Word family
- piracy pirated piratelike pirately piratey piratical piratism
- Phrases
- pirate bug pirate shirt bee pirate butt pirate minute pirate bug pirate library pirate ship pirate spider
- Is a kind of
- criminal plunderer sailor thief
Example sentences
- viking In Viking times, Greenland was greener than today.
By length
- 5 letters
- steal1, pinch1
- 6 letters
- viking2, robber2, raider2
- 7 letters
- corsair2, pirater
- 8 letters
- picaroon
- 9 letters
- buccaneer3
- 10 letters
- filibuster4, commandeer3, bootlegger3, plagiarize3, plagiarist, freebooter, plagiarise
- 11 letters
- plagiarizer, plagiariser
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (viking2 = 2 syllables).