Maury

American  

[mawr-ee, mor-ee] / ˈmɔr i, ˈmɒr i /

noun

1. Matthew Fontaine 1806–73, U.S. naval officer and scientist.

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Maury British  

/ ˈmɔːrɪ /

noun

1. Matthew Fontaine. 1806–73, US pioneer hydrographer and oceanographer

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Maury Scientific  

/ môr′ē /

1. American naval officer and oceanographer who charted the currents and winds of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and wrote the pioneering book Physical Geography of the Sea (1855).

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Example Sentences

The hypnotic sound of the Maury River 100 feet away set the stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

Throughout the previous year, once indispensable working-day hosts like Ellen DeGeneres, Maury Povich, Wendy Williams, and Dr. Oz all bid goodbye to their time slots, either to retire or to seek other career paths.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025

“We’re absolutely relooking at all of our security plans, but we always have a very robust security plan in place,” Television Academy president and chief executive Maury McIntyre told Variety on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

“Connie: A Memoir,” which also details the media personality’s experiences in broadcast television as an Asian American woman and her marriage to Maury Povich, came out Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Then all of a sudden I thought of Dilsey and Uncle Maury.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner