verrazano

1. 1.

   Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)

   SynonymsGiovanni da VerrazanoVerrazzanoGiovanni da Verrazzano

   Broadernavigator

Other forms of verrazano

plural

verrazanoes·

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.

Questions about verrazano

What does verrazano mean?

verrazano means "Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)".

How many syllables are in verrazano?

verrazano has 4 syllables: ver-ra-za-no. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for verrazano?

Close synonyms include Giovanni da Verrazano, Verrazzano, Giovanni da Verrazzano. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verrazano a common word?

verrazano is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.