Pei

¹

[ pey ]

noun

1. I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming], 1917–2019, U.S. architect, born in China.

P.E.I.

²

abbreviation for

1. Prince Edward Island.

Pei

¹

/ peɪ /

noun

1. PeiI(eoh) M(ing)1917MUSChineseARCHITECTURE: architect I ( eoh ) M ( ing ). born 1917, US architect, born in China. His buildings include the E wing of the National Museum of Art, Washington DC (1978), a glass and steel pyramid at the Louvre, Paris (1989), and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, USA (1995)

PEI

²

abbreviation for

1. Prince Edward Island

Example Sentences

Some lip-synched to the chorus of a Russian song: “Pei, Pei, Pei Menia,” or “Drink, Drink, Drink Me.”

From The Daily Beast

The only capitalism China does better than the U.S., said noted scholar Minxin Pei, is “crony capitalism.”

From The Daily Beast

Pei said the two countries are acting “to defy the West together, so that neither might look isolated.”

From The Daily Beast

Tuition and board at the school, which includes a building designed by I.M. Pei, cost more than $45,000 per year.

From The Daily Beast

I stumbled ashore at Tongku, a station up a way on the banks of the Pei Ho river.

From Project Gutenberg

And today Pei-tang and its cathedral stand finer and stronger than before, to the benefit of humanity and the glory of God.

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We stopped that night at Ch-pei, a small town lying at an elevation of about six thousand feet.

From Project Gutenberg

In autumn, in the seventh month, there was a comet, which entered Pei-ton (αβγδ in Ursa Major).

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The ratifications of the treaty were afterwards, on the 16th of August, exchanged in proper form at Pei-tsang.

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