explorer
English Thesaurus
1. a commercial browser (noun.communication)
| instance hypernym | : | browser, web browser, |
| definition | : | a program used to view HTML documents (noun.communication) |
2. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | conquistador, |
| definition | : | an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | navigator, |
| definition | : | in earlier times, a person who explored by ship (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | amundsen, roald amundsen, |
| definition | : | Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cabot, sebastian cabot, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | champlain, samuel de champlain, |
| definition | : | French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | clark, william clark, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | frobisher, sir martin frobisher, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | charles francis hall, hall, |
| definition | : | United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lewis, meriwether lewis, |
| definition | : | United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | david livingstone, livingstone, |
| definition | : | Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (1813-1873) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mackenzie, sir alexander mackenzie, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fridtjof nansen, nansen, |
| definition | : | Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mungo park, park, |
| definition | : | Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | kund johan victor rasmussen, rasmussen, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james clark ross, ross, sir james clark ross, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john ross, ross, sir john ross, |
| definition | : | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henry rowe schoolcraft, schoolcraft, |
| definition | : | United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | robert falcon scott, robert scott, scott, |
| definition | : | English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | captain john smith, john smith, smith, |
| definition | : | English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john hanning speke, john speke, speke, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henry m. stanley, john rowlands, sir henry morton stanley, stanley, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | sebastian vizcaino, vizcaino, |
| definition | : | Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast (1550-1615) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | charles wilkes, wilkes, |
| definition | : | United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | george hubert wilkins, wilkins, |
| definition | : | Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | explore, |
| definition | : | travel to or penetrate into (verb.cognition) |
| derivation | : | explore, |
| definition | : | travel to or penetrate into (verb.cognition) |
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