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explorer Definition

ex·plorer (-ər)

noun

a person who explores; esp., one who explores an unknown or little-known region
explorer Synonyms

explorer

n.

adventurer, traveler, pioneer, wayfarer, pilgrim, voyager, astronaut, space traveler, investigator, inventor, seafarer, mountaineer, mountain climber, scientist, globe-trotter, navigator, circumnavigator, spelunker, creator, founder, pathfinder, trailblazer, colonist, conquistador.

Famous explorers include: Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Francisco Pizarro, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Vasco da Gama, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, John Cabot, De Soto, Hernán Cortés, Father Marquette and Joliet, David Livingstone, Lewis and Clark, Robert E. Peary, Robert Scott, Vilhjalmur Stefanson, Roald Amundsen, Richard E. Byrd, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Maurice Herzog, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shephard, John Glenn, Jacques Cousteau, Neil Armstrong.

explorer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • arrive: When foreign explorers arrived in America during the 15th and 16th centuries they copied the habits of the native American people that they met.

Noun used with modifier

  • cave: In the Main Bar can be seen a collection of caving cartoons by Jim Eyre, one of the local early cave explorers.

Adjective modifier

  • Portuguese: Carvings of elephant ivory were first brought back from the West African coast by Portuguese explorers in the 15 th century.
  • uncoveredspanish: And the four tributary of the being uncoveredspanish explorers.