Pierre

American  

[peer, pee-air, pyer] / pɪər, piˈɛər, pyɛr /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of South Dakota, in the central part, on the Missouri River.

2. a male given name, form of Peter.

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Pierre British  

/ pɪə /

noun

1. a city in central South Dakota, capital of the state, on the Missouri River. Pop: 13 939 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Hamilton faces an investigation on charges of impeding Alpine's Pierre Gasly in the first part of qualifying.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“This ring? It’s the greatest weapon in the universe,” Kyle Chandler’s veteran superhero says to John Stewart, the new Lantern recruit played by Aaron Pierre.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

The city owes more than its name to the first commander in chief; George Washington encouraged the French developer Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design a capital that would symbolize the nation.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

Working alongside USF postdoctoral scholar Pierre Kawak and doctoral student Harshad Bhapkar, Simmons modeled how hundreds of thousands of atoms behave inside reinforced rubber.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton