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gal·le·on

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–noun

a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts.

[Origin: 1520–30; < Sp galeón, aug. of galea galley

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gal·le·on Audio Help (gāl'ē-ən, gāl'yən) Pronunciation Key
n. A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and usually two or more decks, used from the 15th to the 17th century especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.

[Spanish galeon, from Old Spanish, augmentative of galea, galley, from Old French galie; see galley.]

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galleon

1529, from O.Fr. galion, from Sp. galeón "galleon, armed merchant ship," from Byzantine Gk. galea "galley" (see galley) + augmentive suffix -on.

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galleon
noun
a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries

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galleon [ˈgӕliən] noun

in former times, a large, usually Spanish, sailing-ship

Arabic:	غَلْيون: سَفينَه حَرْبِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	四班牙大帆船
Chinese (Traditional):	四班牙大帆船
Czech:	galéra
Danish:	galeon
Dutch:	galjoen
Estonian:	galeoon
Finnish:	kaljuuna
French:	galion
German:	die Galleone
Greek:	γαλιόνι (τύπος ιστιοφόρου πλοίου)
Hungarian:	gálya
Icelandic:	galleón
Indonesian:	kapal bangsa Spanyol
Italian:	galeone

Japanese:	ガリオン船
Korean:	갈레온선
Latvian:	galjona (viduslaiku spāņu burukuģis)
Lithuanian:	galeonas
Norwegian:	gallion
Polish:	galeon
Portuguese (Brazil):	galeão
Portuguese (Portugal):	galeão
Romanian:	galion
Russian:	галеон
Slovak:	galeóna
Slovenian:	galeja
Spanish:	galeón
Swedish:	gallion
Turkish:	kalyon

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Galleon

Gal"le*ass\ (?; 135), n. [F. gal['e]asse, gal['e]ace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See Galley.] (Naut.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

Note: "The galleasses . . . were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and rowed each by three hundred galley slaves. They consisted of an enormous towering structure at the stern, a castellated structure almost equally massive in front, with seats for the rowers amidships." --Motley.

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