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Francis Drake
see synonyms of francis drakeNoun
1. drake, francis drake, sir francis drake
English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Francis Drake
see synonyms of francis drake English naval hero and explorer who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577-1580) and was vice admiral of the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada (1588).
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