Explorer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Explorer \Ex*plor"er\, n.
     One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores,
     as a diving bell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "explorer":
     adventurer, alpinist, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, astronaut,
     avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, camper, climber,
     comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist,
     fare, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman,
     fugleman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, groundbreaker, guide,
     hajji, harbinger, herald, innovator, jet set, jet-setter,
     journeyer, lead runner, leader, mariner, messenger, mountaineer,
     palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, point,
     precedent, precursor, predecessor, rubberneck, rubbernecker,
     sailor, scout, sightseer, stormy petrel, straphanger, tourer,
     tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker,
     tripper, vanguard, vaunt-courier, viator, visiting fireman,
     voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler