cabot

Noun cabot has 2 senses

• cabot(n = noun.person) sebastian cabot - son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557); Array
is a kind of cartographer, map maker, adventurer, explorer

• cabot(n = noun.person) giovanni cabato, john cabot - Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498); Array
is a kind of navigator