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

1 sense of vasco da gamma

Sense 1
da Gamma, Vasco da Gamma, Gamma -- (Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524))
       INSTANCE OF=> navigator -- (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)