Associations to the word «Circumnavigation»

Wiktionary

CIRCUMNAVIGATION, noun. The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

Dictionary definition

CIRCUMNAVIGATION, noun. Traveling around something (by ship or plane); "Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats