Definitions
get the meaning of something
Word origin
From Middle English compas (“a circle, circuit, limit, form, a mathematical instrument”), from Old French compas, from Medieval Latin compassus (“a circle, a circuit”), from Latin com- (“together”) + passus (“a pace, step, later a pass, way, route”); see pass, pace.
Used in a sentence
“[H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?”
“1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding He that […] first discovered the use of the compass […] did more for the propagation of knowledge […] than those who built workhouses.”
“a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Direction finder”7 letters
02“Tool for finding north”7 letters
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