PIERRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pierre mean? 

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

1. capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIERRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of South Dakota; Pierre

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Pierre" is a part of...):

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)

 Context examples 

Old Pierre Le Caron, who owned it, was a right good comrade, and had ever a seat and a crust for a weary archer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These observations were made by a team led by Pierre Kervella from the Observatory of Paris in France who explained that the wavelength of the image is similar to that detected by heat cameras.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

Instead we received a pulse so pristine and sharp that there is no signature of this gas at all, said coauthor Jean-Pierre Macquart, an astronomer at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research at Curtin University, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)