The museum displayed historic bullion recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon.
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Galleon
//ˈɡæ.li.ən//
Synonyms for "galleon" (74 found)
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Related words (37)
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6 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 32 languages.
Basque
1 entries- galeoi noun (large sailing ship)
Catalan
1 entries- galió noun (large sailing ship)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 加利恩帆船 noun (large sailing ship)
- 大型帆船 noun (large sailing ship)
- 蓋倫帆船 /盖伦帆船 noun (large sailing ship)
- 西班牙大帆船 noun (large sailing ship)
Czech
1 entries- galeona noun (large sailing ship)
Danish
1 entries- galeon noun (large sailing ship)
Dutch
1 entries- galjoen noun (large sailing ship)
Estonian
1 entries- galeoon noun (large sailing ship)
Finnish
2 entries- galeoni noun (large sailing ship)
- kaljuuna noun (large sailing ship)
French
1 entries- galion noun (large sailing ship)
Galician
1 entries- galeón noun (large sailing ship)
German
1 entries- Galeone noun (large sailing ship)
Greek
1 entries- γαλιόνι noun (large sailing ship)
Hebrew
1 entries- גליאון noun (large sailing ship)
Hungarian
1 entries- galleon noun (large sailing ship)
Icelandic
1 entries- galíon noun (large sailing ship)
Italian
1 entries- galeone noun (large sailing ship)
Japanese
1 entries- ガレオン船 noun (large sailing ship)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gallion noun (large sailing ship)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- gallion noun (large sailing ship)
Old Galician-Portuguese
1 entries- galeon noun (large sailing ship)
Polish
2 entries- galeon noun (large sailing ship)
- galeona noun (large sailing ship)
Portuguese
1 entries- galeão noun (large sailing ship)
Romanian
1 entries- galion noun (large sailing ship)
Russian
1 entries- галео́н noun (large sailing ship)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- galeon noun (large sailing ship)
- galijun noun (large sailing ship)
- галеон noun (large sailing ship)
- галијун noun (large sailing ship)
Slovak
1 entries- galeóna noun (large sailing ship)
Spanish
1 entries- galeón noun (large sailing ship)
Swedish
1 entries- galeon noun (large sailing ship)
Tagalog
2 entries- galeyon noun (large sailing ship)
- galyon noun (large sailing ship)
Turkish
1 entries- kalyon noun (large sailing ship)
Ukrainian
1 entries- галіон noun (large sailing ship)
Welsh
2 entries- galiwn noun (large sailing ship)
- galiynau noun (large sailing ship)
Sample sentences
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The next day he returned to camp with the balance of his ingots, and when they were stored on board the cruiser Captain Dufranne said he felt like the commander of an old-time Spanish galleon returning from the treasure cities of the Aztecs. “I don’t know what minute my crew will cut my throat, and take over the ship,” he added.
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