piper (redirected from Piper, John)

pip·er  (ppr)

n.

1. One who plays the bagpipe.

2. One who plays on a pipe.

---

piper [ˈpaɪpə]

n

1. (Music, other) a person who plays a pipe or bagpipes

pay the piper and call the tune to bear the cost of an undertaking and control it

---

Piper [ˈpaɪpə]

n

(Biographies / Piper, John (1903-1992) M, British, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) John. 1903-92, British artist. An official war artist in World War II, he is known esp for his watercolours of bombed churches and his stained glass in Coventry Cathedral

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	piper - someone who plays the bagpipe         bagpiper instrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) pipe major - the chief piper in a band of bagpipes
	2.	Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs genus Piper dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination family Piperaceae, pepper family, Piperaceae - tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets pepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam long pepper, Piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas betel, betel pepper, Piper betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits

Translations

piper [ˈpaɪpəʳ] N (on bagpipes) → gaitero/a m/f
he who pays the piper calls the tune → quien paga, manda

piper [ˈpaɪpə^r] n

(= flute player) → joueur/euse m/f de pipeau

(= bagpipe player) → joueur/euse m/f de cornemuse

he who pays the piper calls the tune → qui paie les violons choisit la musique
pipe rack n → râtelier m à pipes.
pipe smoker n → fumeur m de pipe
pipe tobacco n → tabac m à pipe

piper

n → Flötenspieler(in) m(f); (on fife) → Pfeifer(in) m(f); (on bagpipes) → Dudelsackpfeifer(in) m(f); to pay the piper (fig) → die Kosten tragen, für die Kosten aufkommen; he who pays the piper calls the tune (Prov) → wer bezahlt, darf auch bestimmen

piper [ˈpaɪpəʳ] n (on bagpipes) → suonatore/trice di cornamusa