Earhart

[air-hahrt]

noun

1. Amelia (Mary), 1897–1937, U.S. aviator: vanished in flight over Pacific Ocean.

Earhart

/ ˈɛəˌhɑːt /

noun

1. Amelia. 1898–1937, US aviator: the first woman to fly the Atlantic (1928). She disappeared on a Pacific flight (1937)

Example Sentences

Earhart was born into a solidly middle-class family in Kansas, close to her younger sister, Muriel, but her father’s job failures and alcoholism uprooted the Earharts, undermining the girls’ educations.

From Los Angeles Times

Visiting schoolchildren can be heard laughing during a presentation in a nearby auditorium where Amelia Earhart gave her last public appearance before disappearing over the Pacific Ocean.

From Los Angeles Times

Surely, the grainy image had to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane, 16,000 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

From Los Angeles Times

Amelia Earhart bought her first plane with money she pooled with her beloved sister, Muriel, and their mother.

From Los Angeles Times

The airport in Oakland, which opened in September 1927, is famously known as the place where Amelia Earhart took off on her ill-fated attempt to fly around the world.

From Los Angeles Times