Drake Synonyms

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English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Francis Drake
  2. sir francis drake

Words Related to Drake

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. hawkins
  2. nelson
  3. jackson
  4. carter
  5. frobisher
  6. howe
  7. townsend

Drake Sentence Examples

  • He took the same route as Drake along the west coast of America.

  • The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.

  • It took the better part of forty-five minutes to reach Drake Field.

  • His Forty Singing Seamen (1907) and Drake (1908) were characteristic of his patriotic note as a poet of the sea.

  • Doyles books on the American colonies; for military history, Fortescues History of the British Army, Napiers anti Omans works on the Peninsular War, and Kinglakes Invasion of the Crimea; and for naval history, Corbetts Drake and the Tudor Navy, Successors of Drake, English in the Medilerranean and Seven Years War, and Mahans Influence of SeaPower on History and Influence of Sea-Power upon the French Revolution and Empire.

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