Bering

American  

[beer-ing, ber-, bair-, bey-ring] / ˈbɪər ɪŋ, ˈbɛr-, ˈbɛər-, ˈbeɪ rɪŋ /

noun

1. Vitus 1680–1741, Danish navigator: explorer of the N Pacific.

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Bering British  

/ ˈbeːreŋ, ˈbɛrɪŋ, ˈbɛər- /

noun

1. Vitus (ˈviːtʊs). 1681–1741, Danish navigator, who explored the N Pacific for the Russians and discovered Bering Island and the Bering Strait

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Example Sentences

I nod to them and smile and turn off the river on the overland trail out to the Bering Sea.

From Literature

It brought floating ice down from the Bering Sea, and the polar ice pounded against the ice along the shore.

From Literature

He called it “the most tragic day in the history of the Aleutian Lady on the Bering Sea.”

From Los Angeles Times

Significant groupings appear beneath the Himalayas in southern Asia and near the Bering Strait between Asia and North America, south of the Arctic Circle.

From Science Daily

In fact, there are two small islands in the middle of the Bering Strait, where you could potentially walk from the United States to Russia in midwinter.

From BBC