Explorer Definition

ĭk-splôrər
explorers
noun
explorers
A person who explores; esp., one who explores an unknown or little-known region.
Webster's New World
An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
American Heritage
A person aged 14–20 who is a participant in the exploring program of the Boy Scouts of America.
American Heritage

A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.

Wiktionary

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

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explorer
Plural:
explorers

Origin of Explorer

Explorer Sentence Examples

  • These take their name from the explorer Vitus Bering.

  • Cynthia was still sleeping when a speeding Ford Explorer passed them and Dean caught sight of Donald Ryland, with his son Donnie sitting beside him.

  • In 1871-1873 the great Russian explorer, Nicolai Prjevalsky, crossed the Gobi desert from the north to Kansu in western China.

  • For days consecutively the horse of the explorer can get no other food than the dwarf birch.

  • Two days after this they sighted land to the right hand, and came to a cape, where they found the keel of a ship - perhaps a relic of some earlier, possibly Scandinavian explorer - and which they called therefore Kialames (Keelness; Cape Breton, or some adjacent point?); the long bleak sandy shores of this coast they called the Wonderstrands (on the east coast of Cape Breton Island?).

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