clark

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)
noun United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)
noun United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005)

You mean Lewis and Clark! — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough
The party was in charge of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
From Bristol I went to Greenbank to visit Mrs. Helen Bright Clark. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

William Clark

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