Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun francis_drake

1 sense of francis drake

Sense 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))
       INSTANCE OF=> navigator -- (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)
       INSTANCE OF=> admiral, full admiral -- (the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral)