CIRCUMNAVIGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circumnavigation mean? 

• CIRCUMNAVIGATION (noun)
  The noun CIRCUMNAVIGATION has 1 sense:

1. traveling around something (by ship or plane)

  Familiarity information: CIRCUMNAVIGATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCUMNAVIGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Traveling around something (by ship or plane)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe

Hypernyms ("circumnavigation" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain category:

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

Derivation:

circumnavigate (travel around, either by plane or ship)

 Context examples 

There were no beaches on the southern shore, and by early afternoon we rounded the black promontory and completed the circumnavigation of the island.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That night—I am still speaking of the first day of our circumnavigation of the plateau—a great experience awaited us, and one which for ever set at rest any doubt which we could have had as to the wonders so near us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)