NOUN
- Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
How To Use Marco Polo In A Sentence
- He said: ‘The new entrance on Queen's Circus will also improve access from the station to Battersea Park, Prince of Wales Drive, the Marco Polo building and Chelsea Bridge Wharf.’
- We shall be retracing the route taken by Marco Polo.
- Its recently retired director, Marco Polo Stufano, was an early champion of silver foliage and Victorian bedding plants, like cannas and coleus, which he used in surprising ways.
- Marco Polo regarding a large island, which he called Cipango, and which he represented as lying in the ocean off the eastern coast of Amerigo Vespucci
- For two days we hiked along the bottoms of immense canyons, in the shadows, jumping boulders, fording side streams, imagining Marco Polo doing the same thing.
- Tamakikat ordered the Marco Polo, which is their number 1 seller. Our Adventures in Japan
- The slate includes a mix of reality and scripted fare, from "Mob Wives" — a series set to air on VH1 about four women who grew up in the mob or married into it — to "Marco Polo," a historical series that follows Marco Polo's time as a special envoy to Kublai Khan and has drawn offers from several cable networks. Movie Moguls Tap into Television Production
- They are named by the Chinese Ge-pen; the terminating syllable go, added by Marco Polo, is supposed to be the Chinese word kue, signifying kingdom, which is commonly annexed to the names of foreign countries. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Columbus thought that he smelled Oriental spices, which Marco Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand. Christopher Columbus
- When you hear the words "adventure travel", perhaps you think of Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.
