1. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596); [syn: Drake, Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Francis Drake
n 1: English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman
to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the
Spanish Armada (1540-1596) [syn: Drake, Francis Drake,
Sir Francis Drake]