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navigator
[ nav-i-gey-ter ]
- a person who navigates.
- a person who practices, or is skilled in, navigation, as of ships or aircraft.
- a person who conducts explorations by sea.
- British. a navvy.
navigator
/ ˈnævɪˌɡeɪtə /
- a person who is skilled in or performs navigation, esp on a ship or aircraft
- (esp formerly) a person who explores by ship
- an instrument or device for assisting a pilot to navigate an aircraft
Word History and Origins
Origin of navigator1
Example Sentences
My findings suggest that children who are allowed to roam by themselves farther away from their homes are likely to become better, more confident navigators as adults than children who are more restricted.
They dubbed the new species Pseudoliparis swirei, a tribute to Herbert Swire, the 19th-century biologist and navigator who helped discover the trench.
The administration, however, did not initially provide extra money to community groups that serve as enrollment coaches, known as navigators.
The leader of a large navigator in Florida said this week that the group’s volume of calls since the marketplaces reopened was running similar to that of late last year.
Ancient Polynesians, who were expert navigators, may have traveled to South America, bringing new DNA with them on a return trip home.
For instance, it earned zero stars out of a potential four from the rating organization Charity Navigator.
Even so, the Money Navigator flap was a minor blip compared to the storm Orman ignited in January 2012.
But my favorite story linked—inevitably—the navigator program to ACORN.
When he realized this wasn't going to happen, he pulled out of BSA and Troop 103 became Navigator Chapter 1.
Turns out, just like the rest of us, Lincoln was a cautious navigator of the social norms of the day.
The French navigator, De Pages, passed the 81st degree of north latitude, in an attempt to reach the pole.
Champlain became a navigator early in life, and was also a quartermaster in the royal army in Brittany, from 1592 to 1598.
Martin Frobisher, the English navigator, sailed on his second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage to India.
The paddle of that most unskilful navigator, Sweeny, snapped in two, and the broad blade of it was instantly out of reach.
The sailors of the Channel are familiar with those indescribable phosphorescences, full of warning for the navigator.
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