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piper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun piper has 2 senses
- piper(n = noun.person) bagpiper - someone who plays the bagpipe; Array is a kind of instrumentalist, musician, player
- piper(n = noun.plant) genus piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs; Array is a kind of dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
has particulars: pipe major
Derived form verb pipe3
is a member of family piperaceae, pepper family, piperaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
piper, n. [L.].
See Pepper. [1913 Webster]
piper, n.
- One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- A common European gurnard (
Trigla lyra ), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piper, n.
1 a bagpipe-player.
2 a person who plays a pipe, esp. an itinerant musician.
1 a bagpipe-player.
2 a person who plays a pipe, esp. an itinerant musician.
Etymology
OE pipere (as PIPE)
ROGET THESAURUS
piper
Musician
N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.
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