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CABOT
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• CABOT (noun)
The noun CABOT has 2 senses:
1. son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
2. Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
Familiarity information: CABOT used as a noun is rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cabot; Sebastian Cabot
Instance hypernyms:
cartographer; map maker (a person who makes maps)
adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Cabot; Giovanni Cabato; John Cabot
Instance hypernyms:
navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)
Context examples
A measurement of the Cabot rings (red-purple staining, threadlike, ring or figure 8 shaped filaments in an erythrocyte) in a biological specimen.
(Cabot Ring Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The determination of the number of Cabot rings present in a sample.
(Cabot Ring Count, NCI Thesaurus)
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