explorer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Ex=plor=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

explorer, n. 

 One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

explorer, n. a traveller into undiscovered or uninvestigated territory, esp. to get scientific information.

THESAURUS

explorer

adventurer, alpinist, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, astronaut, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, fare, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, groundbreaker, guide, hajji, harbinger, herald, innovator, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, lead runner, leader, mariner, messenger, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, scout, sightseer, stormy petrel, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, vanguard, vaunt-courier, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

ROGET THESAURUS

explorer

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.