navigate
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navigate
- /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ UK
- /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ US
Where it comes from
First attested in 1588; borrowed from Latin nāvigātus, the perfect passive participle of nāvigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nāvis (“ship”) + -igō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).
verb navigates · navigating · navigated
- To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
- To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle. You drive. I'll navigate.
- To travel over water in a ship; to sail. We navigated to France in the dinghy.
- To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism. It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
- To find a way through a difficult situation or process. However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: voyage, pilot, sail, navigation, navigational, steer, sailing, navigator, waterway, shipping, surf, surfing, hover, float, travel, scroll
Translations
Talk about this word "navigate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/navigate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. navigate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/navigate "navigate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/navigate.Cite this
@misc{navigate_2026,
title = {navigate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/navigate},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
