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Definition of explorer : One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

Synonyms:

globe-trotter, David Livingstone, Robert Scott, Sir Edmund Hillary, companion, Francisco Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Jacques Cousteau, astronaut, Ponce de Leon, Roald Amundsen, traveler, Amerigo Vespucci, venturer, mountaineer, mountain climber, investigator, caravan, camp follower, Magellan, spelunker, Neil Armstrong, navigator, Balboa, business traveler, pilgrim, Maurice Herzog, adventurer, Richard E Byrd, Alan Shephard, De Soto, coach party, Sir Francis Drake, Robert E Peary, Vasco da Gama, wayfarer, voyager, Vilhjalmur Stefanson, pioneer, space traveler, creator, scientist, Thor Heyerdahl, John Cabot, founder, bird of passage, Henry Hudson, Lewis and Clark, circumnavigator, colonist, Yuri Gagarin, inventor, trailblazer, pathfinder, dude, commuter, Father Marquette and Joliet, John Glenn, backpacker, seafarer

Usage examples:

• He might have been the figure of the " Explorer," grim and hard and determined; silent and solitary in a land of silence and solitude, brooding over a region where " the trails run out and stop." - "The Everlasting Whisper", Jackson Gregory.
• He could have cut his way to fame as a soldier, struggled to it as an explorer, bullied for it in the courts, or built it out of stone and iron as an engineer. - "Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life", Arthur Conan Doyle.
• He said angrily to the Explorer, Don't you think the Pilot knows his job? - "Youth", Isaac Asimov.