EXPLORER


Meaning of EXPLORER in English

noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

early

To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.

Actually, they were one of the most sensible things that the earlier white explorers brought with them.

Biology played an important role in southern exploration, for many of the early explorers were sealers and whalers.

Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would our maps appear upside down?

great

Most travellers suffered appalling hardship and danger, none more so than the great Victorian explorers .

It was rumored that Henry Hudson, the great explorer , and his crew played ninepins in the mountains every twenty years.

Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer , now 83.

Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did - excited, yes, but more than a little frightened too!

intrepid

The wonders of Ease Gill are available only to a privileged few intrepid explorers .

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But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.

Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.

For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.

He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.

It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.

The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.

The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh.

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