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

1 sense of frobisher

Sense 1
Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobisher -- (English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594))
       INSTANCE OF=> explorer, adventurer -- (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))
       INSTANCE OF=> navigator -- (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)