BENNETT

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• BENNETT (noun)
  The noun BENNETT has 1 sense:

1. United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)

  Familiarity information: BENNETT used as a noun is very rare.

• BENNETT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bennett; Floyd Bennett

Instance hypernyms:

aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer (someone who operates an aircraft)

 Context examples 

We go down Lake Bennett, snow, ice, wind like a gale, but woman is very tired and go to sleep.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of lakes), they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to run towed behind the sled at the end of a rope.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I run canoe through rapids to Lake Bennett.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They made good time down the chain of lakes which fills the craters of extinct volcanoes, and late that night pulled into the huge camp at the head of Lake Bennett, where thousands of goldseekers were building boats against the break-up of the ice in the spring.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)