explorer
a person or thing that explores.
a person who investigates unknown regions: the great explorers of the Renaissance.
any instrument used in exploring or sounding a wound, a cavity in a tooth, or the like.
(initial capital letter)Also called Explorer Scout . a person between the ages 14 and 20 who is an active participant in the exploring program sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America.
(initial capital letter)Aerospace. one of a long series of U.S. scientific satellites: Explorer 1 (1958) was the first U.S. artificial satellite.
Origin of explorer
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How to use explorer in a sentence
You two were in your very first movie together, Explorers, right?
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy that time, SantaCon had already spread beyond the narrow confines of a few prankster-explorers.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest | David Freedlander | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the next 52 years, Walsh and Piccard were also the only explorers to reach the very bottom of the ocean.
History has no shortage of rogue explorers seizing land, hoisting their flags, and building new societies.
So You Want to Rule a Kingdom? A Wacky History of One-Man Nations | Nina Strochlic | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSubterranean explorers puzzled over the mysterious red door that cut off access to underground tunnels leading to the bunker.
They are rarely found in situ, having been destroyed or carried off by successive generations of explorers or plunderers.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowThe explorers soon discovered that the only entrance into the estufa was by a trapdoor and a ladder.
Overland | John William De ForestBut in that case the loss would not be a serious one to the explorers, nor would the thieves find any arms or powder.
The Devil-Tree of El Dorado | Frank AubreyThe mistake which Columbus and the early explorers made in thinking America was India has caused a good deal of confusion.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillSmith Sound has been the channel by which most recent Arctic explorers have pushed north.
British Dictionary definitions for Explorer (1 of 2)
/ (ɪkˈsplɔːrə) /
US a member of the senior branch of the Scouts: Brit equivalent: Venture Scout
British Dictionary definitions for Explorer (2 of 2)
/ (ɪkˈsplɔːrə) /
any of the first series of US satellites. Explorer 1, launched in 1958, confirmed the existence of intense radiation belts around the earth
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