[kab-uh
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| 1. | John (Giovanni Caboto), c1450–98?, Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497. |
| 2. | Richard Clarke, 1868–1939, U.S. physician and writer on medical ethics. |
| 3. | Sebastian, 1474?–1557, English navigator and explorer (son of John Cabot). |
| 4. | a male given name. |
| Cab·ot (kāb'ət) Italian-born explorer who commanded the English expedition that discovered the North American mainland (1497). |
| Cabot, Sebastian 1476?-1557. Italian-born explorer and cartographer who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage (1509) and a Spanish expedition to South America (1525-1528). He published a map of the world in 1544. |