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galleon
(gæliən)
Word forms: plural galleons
countable noun
A galleon is a sailing ship with three masts. Galleons were used mainly in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
galleon in British English
(ˈɡælɪən)
noun
nautical
a large sailing ship having three or more masts, lateen-rigged on the after masts and square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast, used as a warship or trader from the 15th to the 18th centuries
Word origin
C16: from Spanish galeón, from French galion, from Old French galie galleygalleon in American English
(ˈgæliən; ˈgæljən)
noun
a large sailing ship with three or four masts and a high forecastle and stern, developed in the 15th and 16th cent., and used as both a warship and a trader
Word origin
Sp galeón < ML galea: see galleyImage ofgalleon
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Examples of 'galleon' in a sentencegalleon
- in place of sth/sb, in sth's/sb's place
- in places
- in plain clothes
- in plaster
- in play
- in plenty
- in pocket
- in point
- in point of
- in point of fact
- in pole position
- in position
- in posse
- inpour
- in power
- in practice
- in preference to
- in preference to sth
- in preparation for sth
- in principle
- in print
- in prison
- in pristine condition
- in private
- in progress