Pepys

American  

[peeps, peps, pee-pis, pep-is] / pips, pɛps, ˈpi pɪs, ˈpɛp ɪs /

noun

1. Samuel, 1633–1703, English diarist and naval official.

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Pepys British  

/ piːps /

noun

1. Samuel. 1633–1703, English diarist and naval administrator. His diary, which covers the period 1660–69, is a vivid account of London life through such disasters as the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the intrusion of the Dutch fleet up the Thames

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Other Word Forms

• Pepysian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Pepys

Pepys watched the Great Fire from the Tower of London, near where he lived, and came to grasp, with shock, the size and scale of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Britain has produced some formidable diarists—Parson Woodforde, Charles Greville, Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson—but no name resonates with the power of Samuel Pepys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Marlo Avidon's research suggests Pepys never shook off his "sense of anxiety" about dressing inappropriately for his station in life, despite his subsequent success.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024

The chronicler Samuel Pepys recorded that she "commands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth what she will."

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022

Any of this would have been enough to make Hooke famous and delight readers such as Samuel Pepys.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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