EXPLORER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Explorer mean? 

• EXPLORER (noun)
  The noun EXPLORER has 2 senses:

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

2. a commercial browser

  Familiarity information: EXPLORER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPLORER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adventurer; explorer

Hypernyms ("explorer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "explorer"):

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)

conquistador (an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century))

Instance hyponyms:

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

George Hubert Wilkins; Wilkins (Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958))

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))

Fridtjof Nansen; 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; Park (Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806))

Peary; Robert E. Peary; Robert Edwin Peary; Robert 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; 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))

James Clark Ross; Ross; 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))

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

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

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

John Hanning Speke; John Speke; 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))

Henry M. Stanley; John Rowlands; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; 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; Sverdrup (Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic (1855-1930))

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

Charles Wilkes; Wilkes (United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877))

Cordoba; Cordova; Francisco Fernandez Cordoba; Francisco Fernandez de Cordova (Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526))

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))

Bartlett; Captain Bob; Robert Abram Bartlett; Robert Bartlett (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))

Admiral Byrd; Byrd; Richard E. Byrd; Richard Evelyn Byrd (explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957))

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; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557))

Champlain; Samuel de Champlain (French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern 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; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838))

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))

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; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594))

Charles Francis Hall; Hall (United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871))

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

LaSalle; Rene-Robert Cavelier; Sieur de LaSalle (French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687))

Derivation:

explore (travel to or penetrate into)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A commercial browser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Explorer; IE; Internet Explorer

Instance hypernyms:

browser; web browser (a program used to view HTML documents)

 Context examples 

The magnetic field bubbles by themselves aren’t robust enough to protect humans from that harsh radiation environment, but studying their structure could help develop techniques to protect our future explorers.

(NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn', NASA)

A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

Previous research with Spitzer and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer suggested a swarm of comets may be to blame for the short-period dimming.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

Astronomers using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have found a cluster of stars forming at the very edge of our Milky Way galaxy.

(Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center, JPL/NASA)

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its second year of survey data.

(Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data, NASA)

But when the venerable explorer hurtled by, the data showed that the lightning-associated radio signals didn't match the details of the radio signals produced by lightning here at Earth.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Recently analyzed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up its scientific target, the asteroid Bennu.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

Astronomers now have new insights into tidal disruption flares, thanks to data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)

Dr. Illingworth was imperfectly heard in part of his remarks on account of the strenuous opposition of the friends of the explorers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A shadow passed over the gaunt face of the explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)