Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (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);
[syn: Speke, John Speke, John Hanning Speke]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Speke \Speke\, v. i. & t.
To speak. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Speke
n 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) [syn: Speke, John
Speke, John Hanning Speke]