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Noun cabot has 2 senses
- Cabot, Sebastian Cabot - 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)
--1 is a kind of explorer, adventurer; cartographer, map maker
- Cabot, John Cabot, Giovanni Cabato - 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)
--2 is a kind of navigator
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