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da Gama

American  
[duh gam-uh, duh gah-muh] / də ˈgæm ə, də ˈgɑ mə /

noun

  1. Vasco Gama, Vasco da.


Da Gama British  
/ də ˈɡɑːmə /

noun

  1. See Gama

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None of us ever met Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan or Vasco da Gama, the great explorers of history, but for more than 50 years astronauts have walked among us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

For Pec, the Galaxy’s spectacular 23-year-old winger, the change started last February, when he left Brazilian club Vasco da Gama, the only team he had ever known.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 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