WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Cabot
    n 1: son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an
         English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a
         Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of
         Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
         [syn: Cabot, Sebastian Cabot]
    2: Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that
       discovered the mainland of North America and explored the
       coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498) [syn:
       Cabot, John Cabot, Giovanni Cabato]