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English
Etymology
From circumnavigate + -or.
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 […]
Quotations
- W. Guthrie (1770). "Magellan's honour of being the first circumnavigator has been disputed in favor of the brave Sir Francis Drake."
Hypernyms
Translations
a person who sails around the world
References
- Charles Augustus Maude Fennell with John Frederick Stanford (1892) The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, University Press, page 248
Latin
Verb
circumnāvigātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of circumnāvigō