circumnavigation
English
editEtymology
editFrom circum- + navigation.
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editcircumnavigation (countable and uncountable, plural circumnavigations)
- The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
- 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
- Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
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editFrench
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editNoun
editcircumnavigation f (plural circumnavigations)
Further reading
edit- “circumnavigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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