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- DictionaryCir·cum·nav·i·gate/ˌsərkəmˈnavəˌɡāt/
verb
- 1. sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world): "he undertook to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less"
The meaning of CIRCUMNAVIGATE is to go completely around especially by water; also : to go around instead of through : bypass. How to use circumnavigate in a sentence.
to move around something in order to avoid hitting it: We carried the picture carefully through to the main exhibition, circumnavigating several obstacles en route. to avoid something by taking a particular course of action:
Circumnavigate definition: to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation. See examples of CIRCUMNAVIGATE used in a sentence.
to avoid something by taking a particular course of action: Manufacturers and stores circumnavigate (= avoid) gun laws by providing realistic models that are unable to discharge missiles.
Circumnavigate means to travel around in a big circle. When you circumnavigate the world, will you do it in a boat or a hot air balloon?
6 days ago · circumnavigate. If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it. For this year at least, our race to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days is over. [VERB noun] He married in Fiji during a two-year circumnavigation of the globe in his yacht, Surma.
To sail or fly around (the earth, an island, etc.) Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To go around; circumvent. Circumnavigate the downtown traffic. American Heritage. To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail. We circumnavigated the Mediterranean. Wiktionary.
