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Sir Francis Drake

Definition: Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sir Francis Drake

Synonyms: Drake (n), Francis Drake (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sir Francis Drake

English words defined with "Sir Francis Drake": Golden Gate. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sir Francis Drake

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Movie/TV Titles

Sir Francis Drake (1962)

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Commercial Usage: Sir Francis Drake

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Books

  • Sir Francis Drake reuiued: calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, i (reference)

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Photo Album: Sir Francis Drake

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Sir Francis Drake. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Revenge of Sir Francis Drake. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sir Francis Drake

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Economic History

Cape Verde

Sir Francis Drake sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585. After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to Praia, which became the capital in 1770. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sir Francis Drake

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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per Day

sir francis drake

247

sir francis drake hotel

135

sir francis drake hotel san francisco

42

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16

sir francis drake high school

9

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5

history sir francis drake

2
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Anagrams: Sir Francis Drake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-i-i-k-n-r-r-r-s-s"

-4 letters: irradiances.

-5 letters: cinerarias, irradiance, radiancies, ransackers, scarifiers.

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Alternative Orthography: Sir Francis Drake


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 72      46 72 61 6E 63 69 73      44 72 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000100 01110010 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#70 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#115 &#32 &#68 &#114 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0072      0046 0072 0061 006E 0063 0069 0073      0044 0072 0061 006B 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53758424084678069758523884677771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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