Definition of John ross

1. Noun. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856).

Exact synonyms: Ross, Sir John Ross
Generic synonyms: Adventurer, Explorer

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Ross

John Osborne
John Paul I
John Paul II
John Paul Jones
John Philip Marquand
John Philip Sousa
John Pierpont Morgan
John Q. Public
John Quincy Adams
John R. Major
John Reed
John Robinson Jeffers
John Rock
John Roebling
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ross
John Rowlands
John Roy Major
John Rupert Firth
John Ruskin
John Scopes
John Scott Haldane
John Simmons Barth
John Singer Sargent
John Singleton Copley
John Smith
John Speke
John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill

Literary usage of John ross

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: Being by Samuel Mosheim Smucker (1857)
"IN April, 1850, Captain Sir john ross having volunteered his services to proceed in the search, was enabled, by the liberality of the Hudson's Bay Company, ..."

2. Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland ; Notes Illustrative of the Most by George Adolphus Hanson (1876)
"1850, Maria L. Hammond, and had child., now living, viz., Mary Potts,—Worthington,— john ross,—Richard Potts,— Eleanor Murdock,— Nathan Hammond,—Maria ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"In 1818, the Admiralty took up the search, and sent out Captain john ross and Lieutenant Parry, who sailed up Davis' Strait, and ascended Lancaster Sound ..."

4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1891)
"There may be faint traces of him in the Treasurer's accounts of 1490 and 1498. No verse of his is known. ,. .. T , john ross. " And he hes now tane, ..."

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