Definition of Ferdinand Magellan

1. Noun. Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521).

Exact synonyms: Fernao Magalhaes, Magellan
Generic synonyms: Navigator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ferdinand Magellan

Feodor Dostoevski
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoyevsky
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Feosol
Ferber
Ferdiad
Ferdinand
Ferdinand I
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand III
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Ferdinand Magellan (current term)
Ferdinand V
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand the Catholic
Ferdinand the Great
Fere phenomenon
Ferenc Molnar
Fergie
Fergon
Fergus
Fergus mac Róich
Ferguses

Literary usage of Ferdinand Magellan

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

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Ferdinand Magellan, as we call him in English, was a Portuguese nobleman of the fourth grade, but of family as old and blood as blue as any in the peninsula ..."

2. Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries by William Fordyce Mavor (1801)
"OP Ferdinand Magellan, ROUND THE WORLD. He was a native of Portugal, born a gentleman, ... Ferdinand Magellan will always retain a ..."

3. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"... toughness of fibre, that reminds one of the Scotch; and from those lonely mountains there never came forth a sturdier character than Ferdinand Magellan. ..."

4. History of India by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Henry Miers Elliot, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"Ferdinand Magellan. When the consternation of the Lisbon court calmed down, the difficulty was found susceptible of diplomatic settlement. The Bull of 1493, ..."

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