Circumnavigation

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    traveling around something (by ship or plane) wordnet

Etymology

From circum- + navigation.

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