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# piper

«piper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (piper, pipers)

### meaning for a pupil

A piper is a person who plays a pipe, a kind of musical instrument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piper/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character who plays music in tales, such as a king's piper or the Pied Piper

### examples

- The piper played a merry tune at the feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piper/#x1)
- Maurice Connor was the best of all the pipers in Munster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piper/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The Rat heard the piper at dawn and the call of the South, and came back to his river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «piper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.