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

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.