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explorator |
exploratory |
exploratory survey |
explore |
explorement |
explorer
| explorer's gentian
| exploring
| explosion
| explosive
| explosive charge
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explorer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun explorer has 2 senses
- explorer(n = noun.person) adventurer - someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose); Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- explorer(n = noun.communication) ie, internet explorer - a commercial browser; Array is a kind of browser, web browser
has particulars: conquistador, diver, frogman, underwater diver, navigator, potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker, amundsen, roald amundsen, bartlett, captain bob, robert abram bartlett, robert bartlett, bougainville, louis antoine de bougainville, burton, richard burton, sir richard burton, sir richard francis burton, admiral byrd, byrd, richard e. byrd, richard evelyn byrd, cabot, sebastian cabot, champlain, samuel de champlain, clark, william clark, cordoba, cordova, francisco fernandez cordoba, francisco fernandez de cordova, cousteau, jacques costeau, jacques yves costeau, flinders, matthew flinders, sir matthew flinders, fremont, john c. fremont, john charles fremont, frobisher, sir martin frobisher, charles francis hall, hall, joliet, jolliet, louis joliet, louis jolliet, lasalle, rene-robert cavelier, sieur de lasalle, lewis, meriwether lewis, david livingstone, livingstone, mackenzie, sir alexander mackenzie, fridtjof nansen, nansen, mungo park, park, peary, robert e. peary, robert edwin peary, robert peary, kund johan victor rasmussen, rasmussen, james clark ross, ross, sir james clark ross, john ross, ross, sir john ross, henry rowe schoolcraft, schoolcraft, robert falcon scott, robert scott, scott, captain john smith, john smith, smith, john hanning speke, john speke, speke, henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley, otto neumann sverdrup, sverdrup, sebastian vizcaino, vizcaino, charles wilkes, wilkes, george hubert wilkins, wilkins
Derived form verb explore2
CIDE DICTIONARY
explorer, n.
One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
explorer, n. a traveller into undiscovered or uninvestigated territory, esp. to get scientific information.
THESAURUS
explorer
adventurer, alpinist, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, astronaut, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, fare, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, groundbreaker, guide, hajji, harbinger, herald, innovator, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, lead runner, leader, mariner, messenger, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, scout, sightseer, stormy petrel, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, vanguard, vaunt-courier, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-travelerROGET THESAURUS
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Traveler
N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.
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