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Definition of Speke
1. Noun. English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864).
Definition of Speke
1. v. i. & t. To speak.
Definition of Speke
1. Verb. (archaic spelling of speak) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speke
Literary usage of Speke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"speke has duly recorded in his published account of his travels, the companions
were allowed to descend the Nile, and in February, 1863, they reached ..."
2. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland, Walter William Skeat (1884)
"See Spak, speke. Space, time, leave, opportunity, 4. 217. Spades, pi. spades, a.
7. 177. ... speke, v. speak, address (but rather 15. 183. See the footnote. ..."
3. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"TLS xxix. t. 18, f. 1. Ochnaceae. OC/IIM sp ? Madi, speke it Grant. ... Baringo,
Johnston. Odin/i fruticosa, Hochst. Madi, speke & Grant. ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1849)
"This was Hugh speke, a young man of good family, but of a singularly base and
depraved nature ... On this occasion the agency of speke had been traced; and, ..."
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1864)
"This was Hugh speke, a young man of good family, but of a singularly base and
depraved ... On this occasion the agency of speke had been traced ; and, ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"This was Hugh speke, a young mun of good family but of a singularly base and
depraved nature ... On this occasion the agency of speke had been traced ; and, ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1863)
"NT, who was also received with loud applause, said Captain speke had been his
companion throughout the journey. They had been brother officers in India; ..."
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