DIAS

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• DIAS (noun)
  The noun DIAS has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: DIAS used as a noun is very rare.

• DIAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bartholomeu Dias; Bartholomeu Diaz; Dias; Diaz

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

 Context examples 

Pico dos Dias Observatory is located about 1,800m high, and is home to four other telescopes.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopædias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Russian telescope being set up at the Pico dos Dias Observatory in Brazópolis, Minas Gerais, is due to start operating later this month.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Russia was looking for a Southern Hemisphere partner and found suitable conditions at Pico dos Dias Observatory run by the National Astrophysics Laboratory, which is affiliated to the MCTI.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)