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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Pyper
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name
An American aviation manufacturer, Piper Aircraft Inc., named after its early owner William T. Piper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A musician who plays a pipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A bagpiper.
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noun
A baby pigeon.
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noun
A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
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noun
A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
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noun
A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
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noun
A broken-winded hack horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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noun
A person who smokes crack cocaine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Archaic form of pepper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
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noun
An airplane made by Piper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
someone who plays the bagpipe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bagpiper
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Broader terms: musician, instrumentalist, player
Narrower terms: pipe major
noun
type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Piper
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Broader terms: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
History
From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
Across languages
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
