piper

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who plays the bagpipe
  2. noun type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs

Etymology

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

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Synonyms

bagpiper

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