Meaning

5 senses

  1. A French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.

    каперkaper

  2. A privateer or pirate in general.

    Korsar

    корса́рkorsár, пира́тpirát

    a pirate along the Barbary Coast

  3. The ship of such privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality.

  4. A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.

  5. A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).

Examples

1 sentences

  1. A corsair is not a pirate.

    ruКорсар не пират. — Wezel

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
pirate ship or privateer:
privateersman or pirate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
privateersman or pirate:

Origin

Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus

Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar.

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Forms

plural: corsairs
Singularcorsair
Pluralcorsairs

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
buccaneerC2pirateB2freebooterpicaroonraiderreaversea ratsea-robbersea rover
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
corrosivecorruptB2corruptionB2corsetcortexcorundum
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