Synonyms:
Cabot, John_Cabot, Giovanni_Cabato
Meaning: 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)
Synonyms:
Cabot, Sebastian_Cabot
Meaning: 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)
Usage examples
Poor Mrs. Cabot!
JULY 30.-I met Dr. Cabot to-day, and could not, help asking the question:
"To think it was exactly where it is before there was a Cabot in America!"
Our dear Dr. Cabot has gone to his eternal home, and left us as sheep without a shepherd.
Dr Cabot preaches as if we had all got to die pretty soon, or else have something almost as bad happen to us.
Henry Cabot Lodge is authority for the statement that "the settlers of New England were drawn from the country gentlemen, small farmers, and yeomanry of the mother country....
APRIL 13.-Sunday has come again, and with it my darling little class! Dr. Cabot has preached delightfully all day, and I feel that I begin to understand his preaching better, and that it must do me good.
So, curiously enough, it appears that Wolfe, the soldier who won Canada for England in 1759, sat under the arms of the king in whose service the sailor Cabot hoisted the flag of England over Canadian soil in 1497.