- Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, Buccaneers: What’s the Difference?
Pirate is the most general of the four terms Originating with the Greek peiratēs, meaning brigand, it can be applied to a wide range of nautical misbehavior, including coastal raiding and intercepting ships on high seas Robbery, kidnapping, and murder all qualify as piratical activities, provided there’s some water and a boat involved
- Piracy - Wikipedia
Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, and vessels used for piracy are called pirate ships The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations
- PIRATE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PIRATE is one who commits or practices piracy How to use pirate in a sentence
- PIRATE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
pirate noun [C] (SEA THIEF) a person who sails on the sea and attacks and steals from other ships (Definition of pirate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- pirate noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of pirate noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- pirate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
pirate (third-person singular simple present pirates, present participle pirating, simple past and past participle pirated) (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea
- pirate, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
pirate, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- 10 Facts About Pirates and What They Do - ThoughtCo
If all you ever did was watch pirate movies, you’d think that being a pirate was easy: no rules other than to attack rich Spanish galleons, drink rum and swing around in the rigging
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