pirot

P3I1R1O1T1

noun

A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.

OriginSerbo-Croatian Pirot →
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Meanings

pirot1

nounpirot (plural pirots)

plural pirots

  1. human sciencesA notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.

    Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.

    2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, page 123
    1 more example

    Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).

    1988, Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality, page 31

Pirot2

proper noun
  1. A city in south-eastern Serbia, administrative centre of the district of the same name.
  2. An administrative district in south-east Serbia; in full, Pirot District.

Origin

pirot · noun

Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".

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Pirot · proper noun

  1. Serbo-CroatianPirot
  2. EnglishPirot

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pirot / Пирот.

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APA

pirot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pirot

MLA

“pirot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pirot. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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