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When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.
Chris Isaak

Meaning of "Pied Piper" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PIED PIPER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIED PIPER

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Pied Piper is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PIED PIPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pied Piper

Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great number of children from the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his power that he put in his instrument on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore. This version has also appeared in the writings of, amongst others, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm and Robert Browning. Theories have been proposed suggesting that the Pied Piper is a symbol of the children's death by plague or catastrophe. Other theories liken him to figures like Nicholas of Cologne, who is said to have lured away a great number of children on a disastrous Children's Crusade.

Definition of Pied Piper in the English dictionary

The definition of Pied Piper in the dictionary is Also called: the Pied Piper of Hamelin. a piper who rid the town of Hamelin of rats by luring them away with his music and then, when he was not paid for his services, lured away its children. Other definition of Pied Piper is a person who entices others to follow him.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIED PIPER

Pied Piper of Hamelin
pied shag
pied wagtail
pied-billed grebe
pied-piping
piedfort
piedmont
Piedmontese
piedmontite
piedness
pieman
piemen
Piemonte
piemontite
Pienaar

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIED PIPER

caliper
calliper
candy striper
curlew sandpiper
gossiper
griper
juniper
piper
pit viper
riper
sandpiper
sniper
spotted sandpiper
striper
swiper
viper
windscreen wiper
windshield wiper
wiper
worshiper

Synonyms and antonyms of Pied Piper in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Pied Piper» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

吹笛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Pied Piper
570 millions of speakers

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Pied Piper
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चितकबरा मुरलीवाला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

متزعمي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Крысолов
278 millions of speakers

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Pied Piper
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাইড পাইপার
260 millions of speakers

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pied Piper
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Pied Piper
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pied Piper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーメルンの笛吹き男
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

피리 부는 사나이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pied Piper
85 millions of speakers
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Pied Piper
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பைட் பைபர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पावा वाजवणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Fareli Köyün Kavalcısı
70 millions of speakers

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Pied Piper
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Pied Piper
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

щуролов
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Translator English - Romanian

Pied Piper
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Pied Piper
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

fluitspeler
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Pied Piper
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Pied Piper
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Pied Piper

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2 QUOTES WITH «PIED PIPER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Pied Piper.
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Linda Gray
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.
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Chris Isaak
When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIED PIPER»

Discover the use of Pied Piper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Pied Piper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pied Piper
'Mr Shute not only writes vividly and excitingly of occupied France, but with a delightful understanding of children' Sunday Times John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France.
Nevil Shute, 2009
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Pied Piper
When children carrying musical instruments begin to follow Piper around everywhere she goes, arriving uninvited at Halliwell Manor, the Charmed Ones must risk everything to save the innocent youngsters from an unknown evil.
Debbie Viguié, Constance M. Burge, 2004
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Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg
In Pied Piper, James Gollin not only relates Greenberg's tragically short, but highly colorful life story, but he sets the man in the rich context of America's rise to postwar political and cultural prominence."--BOOK JACKET.
James Gollin, 2001
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The Pied Piper
Adrian Mitchell’s triumphant musical adaptation for children of Browning’s The Pied Piper. Premiered at the Royal National Theatre and performed throughout the world.
Adrian Mitchell, Robert Browning, 1988
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Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious ...
The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious 'Pied Piper of Tucson' This disturbing book unearths the tale behind the horrendous murders in 1964 of three teenage girls by Charles Schmid.
John Gilmore, 1995
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The Proverbial "Pied Piper": A Festschrift Volume of Essays ...
With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as ...
Kevin J. McKenna, 2009
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The town of Hamelin has rats everywhere. Along comes a strange piper who says he can charm the rates away. Can he do it?
Jill McDougall, 2011
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The Pied Piper Of South Shore: Toys and Tragedy in Chicago
Looks at the events surrounding the murder of toy store owner Manny Lazar in Chicago.
Caryn Lazar Amster, 2004
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Return of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Twenty-five years later, somewhere in a beautiful country near the mountains, you could hear a strange sound somewhere in the mountains. Pied Piper came out a door on the mountainside.
Gene W. Zepp, 2011
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin in Full Color
The Pied Piper piped the village free of rats, and when the villagers refused to pay him for the service he piped away their children, too
Robert Browning, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIED PIPER»

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Just for Laughs: Yes, the actors are just like their Silicon Valley alter …
As for Middleditch, who plays Richard, the bag of nerves and (supposed) head of Pied Piper? He was the least like his permanently pop-eyed ... «Montreal Gazette, Jul 15»
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Lambert novel to Aardvark
... stay, and with the help of Engel and Crane, begins to care for them – and others who soon follow them, in a strange Pied Piper-ish reversal. «The Bookseller, Jul 15»
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Sault man gobbles up competition
“Twenty seconds is like insane,” said the self-dubbed pied piper of pulled pork. “It's pretty crazy. This is going to be the time to beat.” LeBlanc ... «Sault Star, Jul 15»
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan ~ The Biggest Film of 2015?
I'd say he is like the pied piper.” Having spent only 10 days at the box office, Salman Khan's latest blockbuster has already become India's ... «DESIblitz, Jul 15»
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Zimbabwe: Is Paradise Lost?
With all our exalted education, did we not see in advance the chicanery of the pied piper who promised milk and honey? Did we not see the ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Jul 15»
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Facebook feedback July 27: Habitat for Humanity, Peninsula by land …
Gannon Troutman, 12, of Gloucester County has steered his team, Pied Piper Racing, to several impressive finishes in sailing races in Key ... «Daily Press, Jul 15»
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Criminalizing right to conscience: Part 1, Verbal- Precedes Social …
Religionists who refuse to shadow the proverbial Pied Piper of delusion unsheathe unmitigated indignation, as did Breitbart Editor-at-Large ... «Enter Stage Right, Jul 15»
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My Spot: Oakland's Colby Park
“I like the chance to be a pied piper and lure kids into playing music at a young age.” For Keith Brower Brown, Colby Park is as much a place to ... «KQED, Jul 15»
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Young Gloucester skipper steering his way through international …
At 12-years-old Gannon Troutman has steered his team, Pied Piper Racing, ... in international sailboat racing with his crew Pied Piper Racing. «Daily Press, Jul 15»
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Chelsea's Mourinho mastering Montreal
The Pied Piper of Stamford Bridge has the legions of fans amassed by the hotel entrance following his every move. Posing for photographs and ... «TSN, Jul 15»

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