| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb circumnavigate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (circumnavigate) | 1. Travel around, either by plane or ship.[Wordnet]. 2. To sail completely round.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: circumnavigating, circumnavigated, circumnavigates, circumnavigator, circumnavigators, circumnavigatingly and circumnavigatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CIRCUMNAVIGATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
Specialty Definition: circumnavigate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To sail round; to pass round by water; as, to circumnavigate the globe.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] to circumvent, to bypass. (references) | 2: [Verb] to travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail, around the world; to compass. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
