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

They were ice blue, the color of the ice that floats down from the Bering Sea on the days when the sun is at its tallest.

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