English > explorer: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose). |
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| Synonym | adventurer |
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| Instances | Amundsen, 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) |
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| Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Robert Abram Bartlett, Captain Bob | United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946) |
| Bougainville, Louis Antoine de Bougainville | French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811) |
| Burton, Richard Burton, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton | English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890) |
| Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Admiral Byrd | explorer and United States naval officer |
| Cabot, 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 |
| Champlain, Samuel de Champlain | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec / Quebec (1567-1635) |
| Clark, William Clark | United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River |
| Cordoba, Francisco Fernandez Cordoba, Cordova, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova | Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526) |
| Cousteau, Jacques Costeau, Jacques Yves Costeau | French underwater explorer (born in 1910) |
| Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders | British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) |
| Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Charles Fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) |
| Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobisher | English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient |
| Hall, Charles Francis Hall | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) |
| Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet | French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700) |
| LaSalle, Sieur de LaSalle, Rene-Robert Cavelier | French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687) |
| Lewis, Meriwether Lewis | United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809) |
| Livingstone, David Livingstone | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) |
| Mackenzie, 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) |
| Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) |
| Park, Mungo Park | Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806) |
| Peary, Robert Peary, Robert E. Peary, 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) |
| Rasmussen, Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen | Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer |
| Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross | British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic |
| Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) |
| Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft | United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864) |
| Scott, Robert Scott, Robert Falcon Scott | English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen |
| Smith, John Smith, Captain John Smith | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia |
| Speke, John Speke, John Hanning Speke | English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika |
| Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands | Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871 |
| Sverdrup, Otto Neumann Sverdrup | Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930) |
| Vizcaino, Sebastian Vizcaino | Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615) |
| Wilkes, Charles Wilkes | United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877) |
| Wilkins, George Hubert Wilkins | Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958) |
| Narrower | conquistador | An adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) |
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| diver, frogman, underwater diver | someone who works underwater |
| navigator | In earlier times, a person who explored by ship |
| potholer, spelunker, speleologist, spelaeologist | A person who explores caves |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | exploradora, explorador |
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| Catalan | explorador |
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| Verbs | explore | travel to or penetrate into |
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