DIAS

n. family name; Bartolomeu Dias (c1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope

You may be looking for the article on "dais," a raised platform on which guest speakers, honoured guests or expert panels are seated, possibly on a throne or similar seat. Dias may mean:Direct Internet Access SystemDublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDetaşamentul de Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale, a Romanian police rapid response unitDestruction in Art SymposiumTransparency slides, sometimes known as dias filmDias (meaning Days) is also a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It is a name associated with a great number of different people:Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer.Paulo Dias de Novais, Portuguese colonizer of Africa.Maria Berenice Dias, Brazilian judge.Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician.Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician.Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician.Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Oliveira, Portuguese football player.Fernando Dias van Dúnem, Angolan politician.Filipe Oliveira Dias, Portuguese architect.Pêro Dias, Portuguese explorer.Diogo Dias, Portuguese explorer.Dinis Dias, Portuguese explorer.Luisa Dias Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique.Dias Gomes, Brazilian writer.Gonçalves Dias, Brazilian poet.
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Noun
1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
(synonym) Diaz, Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomeu Diaz
(hypernym) navigator

n. Dias, Bartholomeu Dias (died 1500), Portuguese navigator, Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope

n. Dias, family name; Bartolomeu Dias (c1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope