BERING

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• BERING (noun)
  The noun BERING has 1 sense:

1. Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)

  Familiarity information: BERING used as a noun is very rare.

• BERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Behring; Bering; Vitus Behring; Vitus Bering

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

 Context examples 

And when the ice goes out of Bering Sea, the man and woman go away on a steamship.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is widely accepted that humans first made their way to the Americas from Siberia into Alaska via a land bridge spanning the Bering Strait which was submerged at the end of the last Ice Age.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

And they started up, Ivan and his forty men from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Two years ago he dismasted the Ghost in a gale on Bering Sea, whereupon the present masts were put in, which are stronger and heavier in every way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We are getting near Bering Sea, and there are storms and blizzards. The going is hard.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And all the time we were being driven off into the north-east, directly away from Japan and toward bleak Bering Sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was confident that we should find a station in some one of the coves, for I knew that the rookeries of Bering Sea were thus guarded; but Maud advanced the theory—to prepare me for disappointment, I do believe, if disappointment were to come—that we had discovered an unknown rookery.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)