PEARY

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

1. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)

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

• PEARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Peary; Robert E. Peary; Robert Edwin Peary; Robert Peary

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

In decades prior, major British expeditions had attempted to be the first to reach the North and South Poles only to come in second place behind the Americans (Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole) and the Norwegians (Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole).

(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)