Bermuda

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English

Etymology

From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.

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Bermuda

  1. An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
    Synonym: (former name) Somers Isles
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 632:
      Sir Thomas Gates was appointed Lieutenant Generall ; Sir George Sommers Admirall of Virginia and were ſent to reſide there as Gouernours of the Colonie. But the Sea Venture, wherein the two Knights, and Captaine Newport, with a hundred and fiftie perſons ſayled, after long conflict with the two angrie Elements, was ſent to be impriſoned in Bermuda, where betweene two Rocks the Ship ſplit, the people eſcaping to Land.

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Noun

Bermuda (uncountable)

  1. A pale, slightly blue shade of green
    Bermuda:  

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Proper noun

Bermuda n (proper noun, genitive Bermudas or (optionally with an article) Bermuda)

  1. Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Declension

Declension of Bermuda
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein das Bermuda
genitive eines des Bermudas
dative einem dem Bermuda
accusative ein das Bermuda

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Latin

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Proper noun

Bermūda f sg (genitive Bermūdae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bermūda
Genitive Bermūdae
Dative Bermūdae
Accusative Bermūdam
Ablative Bermūdā
Vocative Bermūda
Locative Bermūdae

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Etymology

From the name of Juan de Bermudez, the Spanish explorer who discovered the islands in 1515. See Bermúdez.

Proper noun

Bermuda n (genitive Bermudas)

  2. Bermuda (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean)

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