literary pirate vs thief

literary pirate and thief both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
literary pirate	Yes	No	No	No
thief	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, thief is a hypernym of literary pirate; that is, thief is a word with a broader meaning than literary pirate:

literary pirate: someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
thief: a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

Other hypernyms of literary pirate include stealer.

literary pirate (noun)	thief (noun)
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own	a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it