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pirateship

pirateship is the alternative form of pirate ship.

Meaning of pirate ship

Noun

pirate ship (plural pirate ships)

  1. Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.
    • The Sea Angel was a massive ship shaped like a pirate ship.2008, J. Henry, Genie in My Lager, page 5
  2. A theme park ride in the form of a pirate ship that swings back and forth with seated riders secured on the deck.

Noun

pirateship (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of piracy.
    • I don't approve of pirateship such as they did in their recent examples.1918, Jack Morris Wright, A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant of the American Aviation in France, April, 1917-January, 1918, page 55
    Synonyms:
    piracy

Synonyms of pirateship

Forms of pirateship

pluralpirateships

Origin of pirateship

From pirate + -ship.

Questions about pirateship

What does pirateship mean?
Pirateship means synonym of piracy.
What is pirateship the alternative form of?
Pirateship is the alternative form of pirate ship.
What part of speech is pirateship?
Pirateship is a noun.
What is the plural of pirateship?
The plural of pirateship is pirateships.

Words near pirateship in the dictionary

  1. pirately
  2. pirater
  3. piraters
  4. piratery
  5. pirates
  6. pirateship
  7. pirateships
  8. piratess
  9. piratesses
  10. pirateware
  11. piratey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pirateship (page history and authors); pirate ship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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