RECONNOITRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconnoitre mean? 

• RECONNOITRE (verb)
  The verb RECONNOITRE has 1 sense:

1. explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

  Familiarity information: RECONNOITRE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONNOITRE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reconnoitre    ... he / she / it reconnoitres   
Past simple: reconnoitred   
Past participle: reconnoitred   
-ing form: reconnoitring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

reconnoiter; reconnoitre; scout

Hypernyms (to "reconnoitre" is one way to...):

observe (watch attentively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reconnaissance (the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy))

reconnoitring (exploring in order to gain information)

 Context examples 

I shall be very much surprised, however, if it is still so when he reconnoitres it this evening.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All this, with convoying, reconnoitring, and risking one’s own ship in order to gain a knowledge of the enemy’s movements, comes under the duties of the commander of a cruiser.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)