explorer
noun
a person or thing that explores.
explorers
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pluralof explorer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But some - including rival explorers - have expressed scepticism that this could be a plane, let alone Earhart's.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Humans are natural explorers, and with them come their voices, their memories … and their microbes," said Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist who led the study from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Not a very imaginative lot, those Spanish explorers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
We pretend we re a pair of daredevil explorers who’ve discovered a giant prehistoric monster in some distant jungle and we've brought it back for the world to see.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
