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BNC: 23004 COCA: 28332

galleon

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galleon /ˈgælijən/ noun
plural galleons
galleon
/ˈgælijən/
noun
plural galleons
Learner's definition of GALLEON
[count]
: a large sailing ship used especially by the Spanish in the 1500s and 1600s（尤指16和17世纪西班牙人使用的）大帆船
BNC: 23004 COCA: 28332

galleon

noun

gal·​le·​on ˈga-lē-ən How to pronounce galleon (audio)
: a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish

Illustration of galleon

Illustration of galleon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web From August to December 1654, the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) waited in Cartagena, Colombia, for a cargo of silver that would never arrive. Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022 There, on January 4, 1656, the galleon lost its bearings. Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022 In July 1693, a large Spanish galleon set sail from the Philippines with a full cargo load of Asian luxury goods, including silk, porcelain and beeswax. New York Times, 12 July 2022 Last month, a team of maritime archaeologists painstakingly recovered more than a dozen timbers from sea caves along the coast that researchers said were almost certainly pieces of the galleon that disappeared, the Santo Cristo de Burgos. New York Times, 12 July 2022 Although the exact location of the landing is in dispute, historians and community members have marked Oct. 18, 1587 as the date when a Spanish galleon with Filipino crewmembers arrived in the area. Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022 Pieces of the galleon’s lower hull could still be hidden nearby; the team hopes to recover additional hull fragments from other caves in the near future. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2022 This can be a complicated task—like trying to understand whether a galleon on the horizon is a hostile pirate ship or an innocuous merchant vessel, aided only by old maritime binoculars and in the middle of heavy fog. Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 1 July 2022 The San José, a 64-gun galleon with 600 people on board, belonged to King Philip V of Spain. Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post, 8 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

probably borrowed from Italian galeone, galione (later reinforced by Spanish galeón, probably borrowed from Italian), from galea galley + -one, augmentative suffix

First Known Use

1529, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of galleon was in 1529
BNC: 23004 COCA: 28332

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