Gama

[ gam-uh; Portuguese gah-muh ]

noun

1. Vas·co da [vas, -koh d, uh, vahsh, -k, oo, d, uh], c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.

Gama

/ ˈɡɑːmə /

noun

1. GamaVasco da?14691524MPortugueseTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator Vasco da (ˈvæskəʊ də). ?1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (1498)

Example Sentences

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

From the Mexico City municipality of Naucalpan de Juárez, the band is made up of the three Gama brothers — marimba player and guitarist Allan “Mongo,” marimbist Jesús “Kacho” and percussionist José Ángel “Kilos” — as well as bassist Raúl Albarran and drummer Ricardo López.

From Los Angeles Times

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

In Brazil, 777 took over top-tier club Vasco da Gama’s soccer department in 2022 in a business operation locals know as SAF — creating public limited companies in clubs often on the brink of bankruptcy.

From Seattle Times

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

From Seattle Times