Explorer
[ek'splɔːrə(r)] or [ɪk'splɔrɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose).
Checker: Neil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
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Examples
- Her severe face had no thread of relaxation in it, by which any explorer could have been guided to the gloomy labyrinth of her thoughts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The African explorer and the Polar adventurer can each talk with his countrymen. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The trail of the explorer was more instantly lost in New York than in the vast recesses of the Amazon swamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The English in America were colonists; the French were explorers, adventurers, agents, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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