Peary

Definition: Peary

Peary

Noun

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

Date "Peary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

"Peary" is a common misspelling or typo for: Peaky, Pear, Pearl, Pearly, Peaty, Perry.

Specialty Definitions: Peary

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	PEARY, Captain Robert E., explorer who said he reached the north pole and convinced a few people. Was also forced to write a book and lecture. Publications: How Dr. Cook Almost Got Ahead of Me. Ambition: That a certain man had not made him get all the way there the last time. Grave: The Cook incident. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Synonyms: Peary

Synonyms: Robert E. Peary (n), Robert Edwin Peary (n), Robert Peary (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Peary

English words defined with "Peary": Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary, Robert Peary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Peary": COOK ♦ PEARY. (references)

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Modern Usage: Peary

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York (1905)
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Commercial Usage: Peary

Domain	Title
Books	Boreal Ties: Photographs and Two Diaries of the 1901 Peary Relief Expedition (reference) Bryozoa from J�rgen Br�nlund Fjord, North Greenland De danske Peary Land ekspeditioner (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Peary

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Photo Album: Peary

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Robert Peary in the Arctic Under order to observe tides for C&GS during North Pole expedition Also observed bathymetry Peary served as a draftsman with the C&GS early in his career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Robert Peary As a Navy officer surveying in Nicaragua Peary served as a draftsman with the C&GS early in his career.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Robert Peary North Pole Expedition Sounding with piano wire through the ice Profile of soundings tends to corroborate that Peary made the pole.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Lake Survey Vessel PEARY. This vessel was originally built as a minesweeper for for the French Navy.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	At Darwin, Australia, probably on 15 or 18 February 1942. The destroyer astern of Houston may be USS Peary (DD-226). Among the ships in the background, to the left, are HMAS Terka and the SS Zealandia. The donor was on board HMAS Tolga, then used as a water carrier for ships in Darwin harbor.Credit: NAVY.		Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 1910.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dinner to Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., Hotel Astor, March 5, 1910.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Peary

"Peary" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peary" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

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Name Usage Frequency: Peary

The following table summarizes the usage of "Peary" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Peary	Last name	200	35,035
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Expressions: Peary

Expressions using "Peary": Robert E. Peary ♦ Robert Edwin Peary ♦ Robert Peary. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peary

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
camp peary	21
robert peary	16
robert e peary	11
e high peary robert school	7
peary	6
peary rader	6
middle peary school	5
robert edwin peary	4
admiral peary	4
high peary	3
harold peary	3
camp peary virginia	3
camp peary va	3
caribou peary	3
high peary school	2
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Anagrams: Peary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: apery, payer, repay.
	Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-y"
	-1 letter: aery, aper, eyra, pare, pear, pray, prey, pyre, rape, reap, yare, year.
	-2 letters: ape, are, aye, ear, era, par, pay, pea, per, pry, pya, pye, rap, ray, rep, rya, rye, yap, yar, yea, yep.
	-3 letters: ae, ar, ay, er, pa, pe, re, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-y"
	+1 letter: drapey, grapey, japery, napery, papery, parley, payers, pearly, player, prayed, prayer, prepay, repays, replay, yapper, yauper, yawper.
	+2 letters: apteryx, apyrase, drapery, eparchy, grapery, jaspery, lamprey, overpay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, partyer, peartly, peccary, pedlary, pessary, peytral, players, plenary, prayers, preachy, prelacy, prepays, pteryla, pyrexia, reapply, replays, respray, ropeway, sparely, sprayed, sprayer, therapy, typebar, yappers, yaupers, yawpers.
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