john speke

1. 1.

   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)

   SynonymsSpekeJohn Hanning Speke

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What does john speke mean?

john speke means "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)".

What is another word for john speke?

Close synonyms include Speke, John Hanning Speke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is john speke a common word?

john speke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.