navigator
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navigator
- /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/
Where it comes from
From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or.
noun navigators
- A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft. The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy. At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice p
- A sea explorer. He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
- A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
- A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind. Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]
- A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sailing master, skipper, nav, sailor, seafarer, mariner, navigational, navigate, navigation, sailing, boater, wingman, shipping, truck, waterway, surfing
Translations
Every language
noun officer who navigates
| Español | navegante |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 導航員 /导航员 dǎohángyuán |
| Português | navegante, navegador |
| Français | navigateur |
| Deutsch | Navigator |
| Italiano | navigante, marinaio, marittimo, navigatore |
| Ελληνικά | πλοηγός ploïgós |
| Română | navigator, navigatoare, marinar |
| Русский | шту́рман štúrman, навига́тор navigátor |
| עברית | נַוָּט \ נווט navvát |
noun sea explorer
| Português | navegante, navegador |
|---|---|
| Français | navigateur |
| Deutsch | Seefahrer |
| Italiano | navigatore |
| Ελληνικά | θαλασσοπόρος thalassopóros |
| Română | navigator, navigatoare |
| Русский | морепла́ватель moreplávatelʹ, морепла́вательница moreplávatelʹnica |
Talk about this word "navigator." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/navigator. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. navigator. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/navigator "navigator." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/navigator.Cite this
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title = {navigator},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/navigator},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
