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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
explorer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.
▪ Actually, they were one of the most sensible things that the earlier white explorers brought with them.
▪ Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.
▪ Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would our maps appear upside down?
great
▪ Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers.
▪ It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer, and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.
▪ Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer, now 83.
▪ Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did - excited, yes, but more than a little frightened too!
intrepid
▪ The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.
▪ Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.
▪ For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.
▪ He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.
▪ It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.
▪ The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.
▪ The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Explorer

Explorer \Ex*plor"er\, n. One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
explorer

1680s, agent noun from explore. Replaced earlier exploratour (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
explorer

n. 1 One who explores something 2 A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information. 3 Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry. 4 (context computing graphical user interface English) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

WordNet
explorer

n. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) [syn: adventurer]

Wikipedia
Explorer (disambiguation)

An explorer is a person involved in exploration; see also list of explorers.

Explorer, explore, exploring or exploration may also refer to:

Explorer (album)

Explorer is a progressive trance album from producer trio Tilt. This is Tilt's first full album of work after over ten years of music production.

Explorer (sternwheeler)

Explorer was a small custom made stern-wheel steamboat built for Second lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives and used by him to carry the U. S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers expedition to explore the Colorado River above Fort Yuma in 1858.

Usage examples of "explorer".

They sat and lay on the earth, grass tickling their chins and bellies, the occasional six-legged explorer marching gravely up a leg or flank.

French explorer Bourgade la Dardye, and of all those who have ever visited the missions of Paraguay.

Who, says the notable humourist, in allusion to this Book, who can studiously travel through sheets of leaves now capable of a stretch from the Lizard to the last few poor pulmonary snips and shreds of leagues dancing on their toes for cold, explorers tell us, and catching breath by good luck, like dogs at bones about a table, on the edge of the Pole?

Come, come, Miss Mandeville, you have the name of a romantic explorer.

In the nineteenth century, according to information collected by his agents, this monstrously heavy bronze piece had been a portable sundial, the property of a fabled English explorer named Strongbow who was said to have been the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the century.

In the huge remaining expanse the penetrometers served as remote sensing stations for regions not yet entered by explorers on the ground.

For the Psychosphere guarded its secrets jealously, and the toll it would exact from unwary explorers might be devastating!

Leur cavalerie se porta immediatement en avant pour explorer les passages et reconnaitre ceux qui pourraient etre libres.

They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist.

Fleetingly, Danae wondered how the early explorers to Shamsheer had ever managed to find the thing.

A pair of Explorers had met some strider scouts, when both sides were checking out the same planet for possible colonization.

I took my stunner from the locker in the Explorer equipment room, the butt felt oddly cold and metallic.

It is useless to add that notwithstanding the wide extent of sea which the explorers could survey, and though the engineer swept the horizon with his glass, no vessel could be found.

Washington plant, Leon Turpin met the deep-space explorer Frank Woodbine, about whom he had heard so much.

Jocelyn Thew, notwithstanding his fine, slim figure, his well-cut clothes and lean, handsome face, carried always with him some nameless, unanalysable air of the man who has played the explorer, who has peered into strange places, who has handled the reins which guide the white horse of life as well as the black horse of death.