Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by activity]
6. seamen

Narrower term/s

• buccaneers
• corsairs

Anotations

Scope note:

Outlaws who travel the seas in ships with the organized intention of attacking and robbing others. Pirates have been active throughout history but the term is used chiefly to describe those active between the 1500s and the 1800s.