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

2 senses of 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)

Sense 2
drake -- (adult male of a wild or domestic duck)
       => duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)