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magellan
/məˈdʒɛlən/
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What does magellan mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- Ferdinand Magellan. (Portuguese explorer)
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IPA pronunciation
/məˈdʒɛlən/
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This is the principal river on the whole line of coast between the Strait of Magellan and the Plata.
We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south.
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The Magellan Clouds consist of three small nebulae in the southern part of the heavens,--two bright, like the milky-way, and one dark.
The hard work, too, of getting the sloop under way every morning was finished, I had hoped, when she cleared the Strait of Magellan.
The belief in the central position of the earth is still universal, and the belief in its rotundity not yet, until the voyage of Magellan, generally accepted.