Definition of Bartholomeu Diaz

1. Noun. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).

Exact synonyms: Bartholomeu Dias, Dias, Diaz
Generic synonyms: Navigator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bartholomeu Diaz

Bart Simpson
Barth
Barth's hernia
Barthelme
Barthold George Niebuhr
Bartholdi
Bartholin
Bartholin's anus
Bartholin's cysts
Bartholin's duct
Bartholomeu Dias
Bartholomeu Diaz (current term)
Bartholomew
Bartholomew Roberts
Bartle Frere
Bartlesville
Bartlett
Bartlett's tinamou
Bartlett's tinamous
Bartletts
Bartok
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Bartolomeo Prignano
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Bartolommeo Eustachio

Literary usage of Bartholomeu Diaz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson (1908)
"... sent out by the king, discovered the mouth of the Congo, or till 1486 that Bartholomeu Diaz doubled the Cabo Tormentoso, an ill-omened name which Dom ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"In 1487, Bartholomeu Diaz passed the Table mountain ... which were commenced under the superintendence °f Bartholomeu Diaz, the ablest and most successful ..."

3. Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, Elizabeth Juliana Leeves Sabine (1849)
"190, says expressly that " Bartholomeu Diaz, e os de sua companhia per causa dos perigos, e tormen- tas, que em o dobrar delle passaram, ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.1 I. Bartholomeu Diaz, the discoverer of the Cape of Storms, spent sixteen months on his voyage, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In 1488 the Portuguese Bartholomeu Diaz had rounded the Cape of Good Hope. After the return of Columbus and his supposed demonstration that the Indies could ..."

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