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ross   (TTS Sound)

The noun ross has 5 senses

• Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross -- (Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856))


• Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross -- (British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862))


• Ross, Sir Ronald Ross -- (British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932))


• Ross, Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross -- (a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977))


• Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross -- (American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836))