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Di·as

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–noun

Bar·tho·lo·me·u

Audio Help [bahr-too-loo-me-oo] Pronunciation Key, c1450–1500, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope.

Also, Diaz.

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Di·as Audio Help (dē'əs, -əsh) Pronunciation Key
Portuguese navigator who was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope. Because of storms he did not actually sight it until the return leg of his voyage (May 1488).

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dias
noun
Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)