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say it: muh-JEL-uhn
magellan is a noun meaning "Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)". It is pronounced /məˈdʒɛlən/ — muh-JEL-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for magellan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.