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An explorer is a person who sets out to discover something by going somewhere unfamiliar. You might think Marco Polo is just a game to play in the pool, but Marco Polo was actually a famous explorer in the 13th Century.

In ancient Greece, the explorer Pytheas travelled to what is now Great Britain and Germany, and the Chinese explorer Wang Dayuan explored the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea in the second century BCE. More recently, explorers have voyaged to the moon and outer space. Before the late seventeenth century, this kind of adventurer was called an exploratour, from the Latin root explorare, "examine or investigate."

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explorer: explorers+/exploration: explorations/explorative: exploratively, nonexplorative, unexplorative/exploratory: nonexploratory, unexploratory/explore: exploration, explorative, exploratory, explored, explorer, explores, exploring, re-explore/explored: unexplored

USAGE EXAMPLES

The property is popular among explorers who post videos online.

Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017)

Without power, we reverted to the things explorers relied on 100 years ago.

The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016)

Navy explorers died in the Gap while looking to cut a nautical channel from the Caribbean to the Pacific.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016)

n someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

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adventurer

Roald Amundsen

Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)

Robert Abram Bartlett

United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)

Sir Richard Francis Burton

English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)

Richard Evelyn Byrd

explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)

Sebastian Cabot

son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)

Samuel de Champlain

French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)

William Clark

United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)

Francisco Fernandez de Cordova

Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526)

Jacques Yves Costeau

French underwater explorer (born in 1910)

Sir Matthew Flinders

British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)

John Charles Fremont

United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890)

Sir Martin Frobisher

English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)

Charles Francis Hall

United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871)

Louis Jolliet

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

Rene-Robert Cavelier

French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687)

Meriwether Lewis

United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)

David Livingstone

Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873)

Sir Alexander Mackenzie

Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930)

Mungo Park

Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)

Robert Edwin Peary

United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)

Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen

Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)

Sir James Clark Ross

British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)

Sir John Ross

Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)

Robert Falcon Scott

English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)

Captain John Smith

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

John Hanning Speke

English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)

Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)

Otto Neumann Sverdrup

Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930)

Sebastian Vizcaino

Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615)

Charles Wilkes

United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877)

George Hubert Wilkins

Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

Vitus Behring

Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)

Giovanni Cabato

Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)

Jacques Cartier

French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557)

Christopher Columbus

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

Captain James Cook

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

Hernando Cortes

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

Vasco da Gamma

Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

John Davis

English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)

Bartholomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)

Sir Francis Drake

English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

Robert Gray

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

Henry Hudson

English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

Francisco Pizarro

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)

Abel Janszoon Tasman

Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659)

George Vancouver

English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)

Giovanni da Verrazzano

Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528)

Americus Vespucius

Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)

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

deep-sea diver

a diver in the deeper parts of the sea

pearl diver, pearler

a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls

scuba diver

an underwater diver who uses scuba gear

Juan Ponce de Leon, Ponce de Leon

Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521)

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

a human being

单词	explorer
释义	explorer (once / 1632 pages) n An explorer is a person who sets out to discover something by going somewhere unfamiliar. You might think Marco Polo is just a game to play in the pool, but Marco Polo was actually a famous explorer in the 13th Century. In ancient Greece, the explorer Pytheas travelled to what is now Great Britain and Germany, and the Chinese explorer Wang Dayuan explored the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea in the second century BCE. More recently, explorers have voyaged to the moon and outer space. Before the late seventeenth century, this kind of adventurer was called an exploratour, from the Latin root explorare, "examine or investigate." WORD FAMILY explorer: explorers+/exploration: explorations/explorative: exploratively, nonexplorative, unexplorative/exploratory: nonexploratory, unexploratory/explore: exploration, explorative, exploratory, explored, explorer, explores, exploring, re-explore/explored: unexplored USAGE EXAMPLES The property is popular among explorers who post videos online. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Without power, we reverted to the things explorers relied on 100 years ago. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Navy explorers died in the Gap while looking to cut a nautical channel from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) n someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) Syn\|Exp\|Hypo\|Hyper adventurer Roald Amundsen Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928) Robert Abram Bartlett United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946) Louis Antoine de Bougainville French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811) Sir Richard Francis Burton English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890) Richard Evelyn Byrd explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957) Sebastian Cabot son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557) Samuel de Champlain French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) William Clark United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838) Francisco Fernandez de Cordova Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526) Jacques Yves Costeau French underwater explorer (born in 1910) Sir Matthew Flinders British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) John Charles Fremont United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) Sir Martin Frobisher English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594) Charles Francis Hall United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) Louis Jolliet French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700) Rene-Robert Cavelier French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687) Meriwether Lewis United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809) David Livingstone Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) Sir Alexander Mackenzie Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico (1764-1820) Fridtjof Nansen Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) Mungo Park Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806) Robert Edwin Peary United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920) Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933) Sir James Clark Ross British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862) Sir John Ross Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864) Robert Falcon Scott English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912) Captain John Smith English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631) John Hanning Speke English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864) Sir Henry Morton Stanley Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904) Otto Neumann Sverdrup Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930) Sebastian Vizcaino Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615) Charles Wilkes United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877) George Hubert Wilkins Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958) Vasco Nunez de Balboa Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519) Vitus Behring Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) Giovanni Cabato Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498) Jacques Cartier French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557) Christopher Columbus Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) Captain James Cook English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) Hernando Cortes Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) Vasco da Gamma Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524) John Davis English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605) Bartholomeu Dias Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500) Sir Francis Drake English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596) Sir Humphrey Gilbert English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583) Robert Gray American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) Henry Hudson English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611) Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521) Francisco Pizarro Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) Abel Janszoon Tasman Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659) George Vancouver English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798) Giovanni da Verrazzano Florentine navigator who explored the eastern coast of North America (circa 1485-1528) Americus Vespucius Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512) 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 deep-sea diver a diver in the deeper parts of the sea pearl diver, pearler a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls scuba diver an underwater diver who uses scuba gear Juan Ponce de Leon, Ponce de Leon Spanish explorer who accompanied Columbus on his second trip in 1493; in 1513 he discovered Florida while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth (1460-1521) individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being Explorer (once / 7116 pages) n WORD FAMILY Explorer: Explorers USAGE EXAMPLES They say other Explorer scouts reported Ceballos to a deputy serving as an Explorer advisor and that started an investigation. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) To watch 360 video you will need the latest version of Chrome, Opera, Firefox or Internet Explorer on your computer. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) The alleged victim, who authorities said is now 18, met Ceballos during an Explorer event in the middle of 2016. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) n a commercial browser Syn\|Exp IE, Internet Explorer browser, web browser a program used to view HTML documents
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