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explorer¹
- /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
noun 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 loyalti
- 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.
- 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.
Explorer²
Where it comes from
From explorer.
noun Explorers
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A participant in the Exploring program, which focuses on career exploration.
Similar: Explorer Scout
- A participant in the Fire Service Exploring program.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: adventurer, exploring, exploration, explore, pursue, investigate, elucidate, exploiter, exploitative, browse, scout, wander, crawler, sweep, scanner, browser
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noun person who explores
| Español | explorador, exploradora |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 探検家 tankenka |
| 中文 | 探險者 /探险者 tànxiǎnzhě |
| हिन्दी | अन्वेषक anveṣak, खोजकर्ता khojkartā |
| Português | explorador, exploradora |
| Français | explorateur, exploratrice |
| Deutsch | Forscher, Forscherin |
| Italiano | esploratore |
| Русский | иссле́дователь isslédovatelʹ, иссле́довательница isslédovatelʹnica |
| العربية | مُسْتَكْشِف mustakšif |
| עברית | חוקר khokér |
noun person who by expedition seeks new information
| हिन्दी | खोजकर्ता khojkartā |
|---|---|
| Português | explorador |
| Français | explorateur, exploratrice |
| Deutsch | Entdecker |
| Ελληνικά | εξερευνητής exerevnitís, εξερευνήτρια exerevnítria |
| Română | explorator, exploratoare |
| Русский | иссле́дователь isslédovatelʹ, иссле́довательница isslédovatelʹnica |
| עברית | חוקר khokér |
noun any of various tools in dentistry
| Português | sonda exploradora, explorador dental |
|---|---|
| Français | sonde |
| Русский | зонд zond |
noun computing, graphic user interface
| Español | explorador |
|---|---|
| Português | explorador, navegador |
| Русский | проводник provodnik |
Talk about this word "explorer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/explorer. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. explorer. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/explorer "explorer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/explorer.Cite this
@misc{explorer_2026,
title = {explorer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/explorer},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
