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explorer

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ex·plor·er  (k-splôrr, -splr-)
n.
1. One that explores, especially one that explores a geographic area.
2. An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
3. Explorer A person aged 14-20 who is a participant in the exploring program of the Boy Scouts of America.

Explorer1
n
(Non-sporting Hobbies / Other Non-sporting Hobbies) US a member of the senior branch of the Scouts Brit equivalent Venture Scout

Explorer2
n
(Astronautics) any of the first series of US satellites. Explorer 1, launched in 1958, confirmed the existence of intense radiation belts around the earth
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.explorerexplorer - someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
conquistador - an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
diver, frogman, underwater diver - someone who works underwater
navigator - in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist, spelunker - a person who explores caves
2.Explorer - a commercial browser

explorer
noun traveller, journeyer, adventurer, voyager, globetrotter, discoverer the British explorer who discovered the North Magnetic Pole
Translations
explorer [ɪksˈplɔːrəʳ] Nexplorador(a) m/f

explorer [ɪkˈsplɔːrər] nexplorateur/trice m/f

explorer
nForscher(in) m(f), → Forschungsreisende(r) mf

explorer [ɪksˈplɔːrəʳ] nesploratore/trice
explorer [ɪksˈplɔːrəʳ] nesploratore/trice

explorer مستكشف badatel opdagelsesrejsende Forscher εξερευνητής explorador tutkimusmatkailija explorateur istraživač esploratore 探検家 탐험가 verkenner oppdagelsesreisende badacz explorador исследователь upptäcktsresande นักสำรวจ kaşif nhà thám hiểm 探险家


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AFTER a great expenditure of life and treasure a Daring Explorer had succeeded in reaching the North Pole, when he was approached by a Native Galeut who lived there.
He was like the explorer in Central Africa who comes suddenly upon wide uplands, with great trees in them and stretches of meadow, so that he might fancy himself in an English park.
After drinking some hot coffee, like an Arctic explorer setting off on a sledge journey towards the North Pole, I would go ashore and roll shivering in a tramcar into the very heart of the town, past clean-faced houses, past thousands of brass knockers upon a thousand painted doors glimmering behind rows of trees of the pavement species, leafless, gaunt, seemingly dead for ever.
 
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