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circumaviator

circumaviator noun: one who circumaviates (something, usually the Globe, the Earth).

Noun

circumaviator (plural circumaviators)

  1. (uncommon) One who circumaviates (something, usually the Globe, the Earth).
    • QUEMQUE ÆQUUM EST QUÆSTUM ESSE CALLIDUM. [Everyone should be clever to their own advantage.] And now from our circumaviator Bob McNamara comes another letter addressed to Whitney Darrow and dated Semiramis Hotel, Cairo, April 4, which, being duly abbreviated à la Reader's Digest, reads somewhat as...1956 May 4, R. Earle Anderson, “Class Notes column. 03 [news of the class of 1903]”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 56, number 25, page 16

Forms of circumaviator

pluralcircumaviators

Origin of circumaviator

By surface analysis, circumaviate + -or, or, by surface analysis, circum- + aviator.

Questions about circumaviator

What does circumaviator mean?
Circumaviator means one who circumaviates (something, usually the Globe, the Earth).
What part of speech is circumaviator?
Circumaviator is a noun.
What is the plural of circumaviator?
The plural of circumaviator is circumaviators.

Words near circumaviator in the dictionary

  1. circumarticular
  2. circumaural
  3. circumaviate
  4. circumaviation
  5. circumaviations
  6. circumaviator
  7. circumaxial
  8. circumaxially
  9. circumaxile
  10. circumbendibi
  11. circumbendibus

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