navigate

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
  2. verb act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
  3. verb direct carefully and safely

Etymology

First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

voyage, sail

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