perry

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun United States philosopher (1876-1957)
noun United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858)
noun United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)

From Middle English perre; from Old French peré; from Vulgar Latin *piratum; from Latin pirum.

Mr. Perry did say so. — Emma, Jane Austen
Especially people like Champ Perry. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Copyright, 1918, by Lawrence Perry.] — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

Ralph Barton Perry

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