Perry Definition

pĕrē
perries
noun
A fermented drink like cider, made from pear juice, esp. in England.
Webster's New World
A masculine name.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • ralph barton perry
  • matthew calbraith perry
  • Commodore Perry
  • oliver hazard perry
pronoun

A topographic surname derived from the Old English pyrige (a pear tree).

Wiktionary

A male given name derived from the surname, or a pet form of the rare given name Peregrine.

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A town in Arkansas.

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A city in Florida.

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A city in Georgia, USA.

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Other Word Forms of Perry

Noun

Singular:
perry
Plural:
perries

Origin of Perry

  • From Middle English, peirrie; from Middle French, peré; from (assumed) Vulgar Latin, piratum; from Latin, pirum.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English pere from Old French pere from Vulgar Latin pirātum from Latin pirum pear

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Perry Sentence Examples

  • He entered the navy as midshipman (1799) with his father, Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818), a captain in the navy, and saw service against the Barbary pirates.

  • Captain Barclay, after a hot engagement - the Battle of Lake Erie - in which Captain Perry's flagship the "Lawrence," a brig, was so severely shattered that he had to leave her, was completely defeated.

  • There are 29 counties in which coal is produced, but 81.4% of it in 1908 came from Belmont, Athens, Jefferson, Guernsey, Perry, Hocking, Tuscarawas and Jackson counties.

  • Perry, erected in commemoration of his victory on Lake Erie in 1813, is in Wade Park, where there is also a statue of Harvey Rice (1800-1891), who reformed the Ohio public school system and wrote Pioneers of the Western Reserve (1882) and Sketches of Western Life (1888).

  • The Universal Magazine (1747) had a short, if brilliant, career; but the European Magazine, founded by James Perry in 1782, lasted down to 1826.

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