explorer
/ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
explorer noun: one who explores something.
Noun (1)
explorer (plural explorers)
- One who explores something
- Sachs tries to remember how it felt not to walk around with this knot in his gut. He longs for his old lab in Connecticut, where the world was made of mathematics, energy, and atomic cascades, and he was its explorer. He has no business in these political orders of magnitude, where erroneous...2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128
- A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586
- Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry
- Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
- A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
- For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise
Noun (2) capitalized: Explorer
Explorer (plural Explorers)
- A participant in the Exploring program, which focuses on career exploration.
- Synonyms:
- Explorer Scout
- A participant in the Fire Service Exploring program.
explorer meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Arabic
explorer in Hindi
- person who explores
- अन्वेषक anveṣak, खोजकर्ता khojkartā
- person who by expedition seeks new information
- खोजकर्ता khojkartā
explorer in Bengali
- অনুসন্ধানকারী
explorer in Malayalam
- ദേശപര്യവേഷകൻ, അന്വേഷകൻ
explorer in Arabic
- person who explores
- مُسْتَكْشِف mustakšif
More languagesFewer languages
- explorer in Indonesian
- penjelajah
Examples of explorer in a sentence
- High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
- The band of explorers found a shelter behind the waterfall, which they rested at for three days.
- The explorer was renowned as a scaler of the world's tallest mountains.
Synonyms of explorer
Forms of explorer
| plural | explorers |
|---|---|
| plural | Explorers |
Origin of explorer
From explore + -er.
From explorer.
Words formed from explorer
Phrases with explorer
Words that rhyme with explorer
Questions about explorer
- What does explorer mean?
- Explorer means one who explores something.
- What is explorer in Hindi?
- Explorer in Hindi is अन्वेषक (anveṣak), खोजकर्ता (khojkartā). See Explorer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is explorer?
- Explorer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce explorer?
- Explorer is pronounced /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of explorer?
- The plural of explorer is explorers.
Words near explorer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: explorer (page history and authors); Explorer (page history and authors); explorer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); explorer (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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