- 1(especially in the past) a person on a ship that attacks other ships at sea in order to steal from them a pirate ship
- 2(often used as an adjective) a person who makes illegal copies of DVDs, computer programs, books, etc., in order to sell them a pirate edition software pirates
- 3(often used as an adjective) a person or an organization that broadcasts illegally a pirate radio station see piracy
NAmE//paɪˈræt̮ɪkl//, NAmE//pəˈræt̮ɪkl//
adjectiveSee pirate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: pirate