From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishexplorerex‧plo‧rer /ɪkˈsplɔːrə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] TRAVELsomeone who travels through an unknown area to find out about it► see thesaurus at travel
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explorer• For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.• Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.• The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.• It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.• But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.• He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.• The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh. 