Meaning

8 senses
  1. A musician who plays a pipe.

    ду́дочникdúdočnik, волы́нщикvolýnščik, флейти́стflejtíst

    ґа́йдарgájdar, дуда́рdudár

    someone who plays the bagpipe

  2. A bagpiper.

  3. A baby pigeon.

  4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.

  5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

  6. A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.

  7. (slang)A person who smokes crack cocaine.

  8. (obsolete, slang)A broken-winded hack horse.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

    Хто платить, той і замовляє музику.

    deWes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing.

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  2. So it's finally time to pay the piper.

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  3. Piper moved her hand back and forth across her neck, in a sawing motion.

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  4. It's time for Sami to pay the piper.

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  5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

    ruНа дворе трава, на траве дрова.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
musician who plays a pipe:
Русский
By meaning 1
musician who plays a pipe:

Origin

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

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Forms

plural: pipers
Singularpiper
Pluralpipers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
bagpiper:bagpiper
baby pigeon:squabbaby pigeonpigeon chick
Close in meaning
  • someone who plays the bagpipe:bagpiper
  • type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs:genus Piper

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
piper — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto