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Pierre

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//piˈɛɹ//
  • United States//pɪɹ//
  • United States/[pʰi(ə)ɹ]/

A male given name from French, of occasional usage, equivalent to English Peter.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from French, of occasional usage, equivalent to English Peter.

    The Ferraris pressed the self-destruct button, Lewis Hamilton lost his spot on the podium, and there were champagne moments for Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr.

  2. 2

    A surname from French.

    In his cast of characters, you really see a disproportionate focus, I think, on Black women - on Kamala Harris, who he's insinuated only has her job today because of who she dated; to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who he's demanded the LSAT scores of - I don't recall him demanding the LSAT scores for Brett Kavanaugh - Karine Jean-Pierre.

  3. 3

    The capital city of South Dakota, United States, and the county seat of Hughes County.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Pierre. Doublet of Peter.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).