JOHN ROWLANDS

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• JOHN ROWLANDS (noun)
  The noun JOHN ROWLANDS has 1 sense:

1. Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)

  Familiarity information: JOHN ROWLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

• JOHN ROWLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry M. Stanley; John Rowlands; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Stanley

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)