Pepys

[ peeps, peps, pee-pis, pep-is ]

noun
  1. Samuel, 1633–1703, English diarist and naval official.

Other words from Pepys

  • Pepys·i·an [peep-see-uhn, pep-], /ˈpip si ən, ˈpɛp-/, adjective

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How to use Pepys in a sentence

  • Samuel Pepys, a learned Englishman, died; celebrated for his collection of valuable documents, &c.

  • Samuel Pepys was numbered among its patrons, and writers of the Restoration make frequent reference to it.

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  • Pepys and Dr. Fayrebrother; and all our talk about to-morrow's show, and our trouble that it is like to be a wet day.

  • Pepys dined with me, and after dinner my brother Tom came to me and then I made myself ready to get a-horseback for Cambridge.

  • To our own church in the morning and so home to dinner, where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys came to me to dine, and were very merry.

British Dictionary definitions for Pepys

Pepys

/ (piːps) /


noun
  1. Samuel. 1633–1703, English diarist and naval administrator. His diary, which covers the period 1660–69, is a vivid account of London life through such disasters as the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the intrusion of the Dutch fleet up the Thames

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