Hakluyt

American  

[hak-lit] / ˈhæk lɪt /

noun

1. Richard, 1552?–1616, English geographer and editor of explorers' narratives.

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Hakluyt British  

/ ˈhækluːt /

noun

1. Richard. ?1552–1616, English geographer, who compiled The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)

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Example Sentences

Andrew Exum is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and a partner at Hakluyt & Company, a management consultancy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

The books, by English writer Richard Hakluyt, were only expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2021

De Veer’s book felt as fresh as ever when Britain’s Hakluyt Society published a new translation in 1853 and again in 1876.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2021

Most of their writings were compiled at the time by English historian Richard Hakluyt.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2020

A list of all the colonists, to the number of 107, "as well gentlemen as others, that remained one whole yeere in Virginia," is given in Hakluyt, at p.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various