DRAKE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Adult male of a wild or domestic duck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("drake" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Meaning:

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

Synonyms:

Drake; Francis Drake; Sir Francis Drake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

admiral; full admiral (the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral)

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)