explorer

Word family  noun exploration explorer adjective exploratory unexplored verb explore

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ex·plo·rer /ɪkˈsplɔːrə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable]  TRAVELsomeone who travels through an unknown area to find out about it 探险者；勘查者► see thesaurus at travel

Examples from the Corpus

explorer• For enthusiastic cave explorers, it is a second home.• Certainly her fellow explorers ganged up on Dame Freya's side.• The collection is being marketed as clothing for ice climbers, glacier explorers and back-country skiers.• It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.• But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.• He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.• The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with Columbus and continuing on through Raleigh.

ex·plo·rer nounChineseSyllable  

unknown area someone travels who an through Corpus

explorer
ex‧plo‧rer /ɪkˈsplɔːrə $ -ər/ noun [countable]someone who travels through an unknown area to find out about it
     

THESAURUS

■ people who travel
   ▪ traveller British English, traveler American English someone who is travelling a long distance: Weary travellers waited at the airport. | My aunt was a great traveller. (=she travelled a lot).
   ▪ tourist someone who is travelling somewhere for a holiday: During the summer, over a million tourists visit the island each year.
   ▪ passenger someone who is travelling in a vehicle, plane, ship etc but not driving it or working on it: The driver and two passengers were killed in the crash.
   ▪ commuter someone who travels to work every day: commuters on the train to London
   ▪ backpacker someone who travels to a lot of different places, carrying their clothes etc in a rucksack: The hostels are great for backpackers.
   ▪ explorer someone who travels to places that people have not visited before: Potatoes were brought to England by explorers such as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.

ex·plorerBrE /ɪkˈsplɔːrə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈsplɔːrər/ 🔊 nouna person who travels to unknown places in order to find out more about them 探险者；勘探者；考察者