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Webster 1913 Edition
Circumnavigator
Cirˊcum-nav′igaˊtor
,Noun.
One who sails round.
W. Guthrie.
Webster 1828 Edition
Circumnavigator
CIRCUMNAVIGATOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
circumnavigator
circumnavigator
English
Noun
circumnavigator (plural circumnavigators)
- A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
- If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]
- 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine (page 59)
Hypernyms
Translations
a person who sails around the world
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Quotations
- W. Guthrie (1770). "Magellan's honour of being the first circumnavigator has been disputed in favor of the brave Sir Francis Drake."
References
- Charles Augustus Maude Fennell; John Frederick Stanford (1892) The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, University Press, page 248
Latin
Verb
circumnāvigātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of circumnāvigō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of circumnāvigō