Gama

American

[gam-uh, gah-muh] / ˈgæm ə, ˈgɑ mə /

noun

Vasco da c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.

Gama British

/ ˈɡɑːmə /

noun

Vasco da (ˈvæskəʊ də). ?1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (1498)

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Marinakis also confirmed in December he had been in talks to purchase Brazilian side Vasco da Gama.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

Similar walls have been built at the historical sites such as Fort Jesus in Mombasa and Vasco Da Gama Pillar in Malindi after the rise in seawater threatened these tourist attractions.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2024

“We are sitting on a time bomb,” Vasco da Gama vice president Felipe Carregal Sztajnbok said in March.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

In his first stage role, at 9, Mr. Carter played the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on a voyage of discovery.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendency, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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