Dictionary

explorer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English explorer From explore + -er.

Meanings

1. 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 loyalties can get your brain spattered over hotel bedrooms. 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128:
2. A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
4. 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:

Forms

Coordinates

scaler

Deriveds

nonexplorer · sexplorer · urban explorer

Relateds

ranger · explorative · exploration · exploratory · scout

Translations (88)

hi अन्वेषक (person who explores) · el εξερευνήτρια (person who by expedition seeks new information) · ja 探検家 (person who explores) · it esploratore (person who explores) · fr exploratrice (person who by expedition seeks new information) · km អ្នករុករក (person who explores) · ru иссле́дователь (person who by expedition seeks new information) · nb utforsker (person who explores) · cy anturwr (person who explores) · pt navegador (computing, graphic user interface) · bg изсле́довател (person who explores) · cs průzkumník (person who explores) · sv utforskare (person who explores) · tr gezgin (person who explores) · pt explorador (person who by expedition seeks new information) · gl exploradora (person who explores) · ru проводник (computing, graphic user interface) · is landkönnuður (person who explores) · fy ferkenner (person who explores) · ro explorator (person who by expedition seeks new information) · de Forscherin (person who explores) · ro exploratoare (person who by expedition seeks new information) · pl odkrywca (person who by expedition seeks new information) · fy ûntdekker (person who explores) · pt explorador dental (any of various tools in dentistry) · cy fforiwres (person who explores) · nl ontdekker (person who by expedition seeks new information) · ast esplorador (person who explores) · fr explorateur (person who by expedition seeks new information) · hi खोजकर्ता (person who by expedition seeks new information) · nl ontdekkingsreiziger (person who by expedition seeks new information) · fr sonde (any of various tools in dentistry) · tr gezgin (person who by expedition seeks new information) · el εξερευνητής (person who by expedition seeks new information) · bg изсле́довател (person who by expedition seeks new information) · ru зонд (any of various tools in dentistry) · hu felfedező (person who by expedition seeks new information) · pt sonda exploradora (any of various tools in dentistry) · nl verkenner (person who explores) · mi kaihōpara (person who explores) · eo esploristo (person who by expedition seeks new information) · da udforsker (person who explores) · tr kaşif (person who by expedition seeks new information) · la explorator (person who by expedition seeks new information) · de Forscher (person who explores) · he חוקר (person who by expedition seeks new information) · fi tutkimusmatkailija (person who by expedition seeks new information) · gl explorador (person who explores) · es exploradora (person who explores) · tr kaşif (person who explores) · he חוקר (person who explores) · la explorator (person who explores) · fi selain (computing, graphic user interface) · fi tutkija (person who explores) · pt explorador (person who explores) · pl badaczka (person who by expedition seeks new information) · fr explorateur (person who explores) · ru иссле́дователь (person who explores) · cy anturwres (person who explores) · id penjelajah (person who explores) · fr exploratrice (person who explores) · nl ontdekker (person who explores) · fi tutkimusmatkailija (person who explores) · pl badacz (person who by expedition seeks new information) · tr araştırmacı (person who explores) · fi koetin (any of various tools in dentistry) · hu felfedező (person who explores) · oc explorator (person who explores) · ar مُسْتَكْشِف (person who explores) · pt exploradora (person who explores) · bo ཉུལ་བ་འདོད (person who explores) · eo esploranto (person who explores) · ru иссле́довательница (person who by expedition seeks new information) · cmn 探險者 /探险者 (person who explores) · nb utforsker (person who by expedition seeks new information) · es explorador (computing, graphic user interface) · tr araştırıcı (person who explores) · ru иссле́довательница (person who explores) · es explorador (person who explores) · gl explorador (computing, graphic user interface) · de Entdecker (person who by expedition seeks new information) · tr araştırmacı (person who by expedition seeks new information) · pt explorador (computing, graphic user interface) · ca explorador (person who explores) · pl odkrywczyni (person who by expedition seeks new information) · cy fforiwr (person who explores) · hi खोजकर्ता (person who explores) · sv upptäcktsresande (person who by expedition seeks new information)