explorer

See also: Explorer

English

Etymology

explore +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)

Noun

One end of a dental explorer.

explorer (plural explorers)

1. One who explores something
2. A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:

     Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.

3. Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
4. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
   • 2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise:

     For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.

5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (figuratively) Someone who is adventurous and free-thinking.

Derived terms

• urban explorer

Related terms

• exploration
• explorative
• exploratory

Translations

person who explores

• Arabic: مُسْتَكْشِف (mustakšif)
• Asturian: esplorador m
• Bulgarian: изсле́довател m (izslédovatel)
• Catalan: explorador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 探險者／探险者 (zh) (tànxiǎnzhě)

• Czech: průzkumník (cs) m
• Danish: udforsker c
• Dutch: verkenner (nl) m
• Finnish: tutkija (fi), tutkimusmatkailija (fi)
• French: explorateur (fr) m, exploratrice (fr) f
• Galician: explorador m, exploradora f
• German: Forscher (de) m, Forscherin (de) f
• Hebrew: חוקר (he) m (khokér)
• Hungarian: felfedező (hu)
• Icelandic: landkönnuður (is) m
• Italian: esploratore (it) m
• Japanese: 探検家 (ja) (たんけんか, tankenka)
• Khmer: អ្នករុករក (nĕək ruk rɔɔk)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utforsker m

• Occitan: explorator (oc) m
• Portuguese: explorador (pt) m, exploradora (pt) f
• Russian: иссле́дователь (ru) m (isslédovatelʹ), иссле́довательница (ru) f (isslédovatelʹnica)
• Spanish: explorador (es) m, exploradora (es) f
• Swedish: utforskare (sv) c
• Tibetan: ཉུལ་བ་འདོད (nyul ba 'dod)
• Welsh: anturwr m, anturwres f, fforiwr m, fforiwres m

person who by expedition seeks new information

• Bulgarian: изсле́довател m (izslédovatel)
• Dutch: ontdekker (nl), ontdekkingsreiziger (nl) m
• Esperanto: esploristo
• Finnish: tutkimusmatkailija (fi)
• French: explorateur (fr) m, exploratrice (fr) f
• German: Entdecker (de) m
• Hebrew: חוקר (he) m (khokér)
• Hungarian: felfedező (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utforsker m

• Polish: odkrywca (pl) m, odkrywczyni f, badacz (pl) m, badaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: explorador (pt) m
• Romanian: explorator (ro) m, exploratoare (ro) f
• Russian: иссле́дователь (ru) m (isslédovatelʹ), иссле́довательница (ru) f (isslédovatelʹnica)
• Swedish: upptäcktsresande (sv) c

any of various tools in dentistry

• Finnish: koetin (fi)
• French: sonde (fr) f
• Portuguese: sonda exploradora f, explorador dental m
• Russian: (зубной) зонд (ru) m (zond)

computing, graphic user interface

• Finnish: selain (fi)
• Galician: explorador m
• Portuguese: explorador (pt) m, navegador (pt) m
• Russian: проводник (ru) m (provodnik)
• Spanish: explorador (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: رَحّلَة
• Czech: průzkumník (cs) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} penyelidik (id), ^{(please verify)} peneliti (id), ^{(please verify)} penjelajah (id)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} explorator m, ^{(please verify)} exploratrice f

See also

• ranger
• scout

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin explōrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

explorer

1. to explore

Conjugation

Conjugation of explorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	explorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	explorant /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exploré /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	explore /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explores /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explore /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explorons /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɔ̃/	explorez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/	explorent /ɛk.splɔʁ/
	imperfect	explorais /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/	explorais /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/	explorait /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/	explorions /ɛk.splɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	exploriez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁje/	exploraient /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	explorai /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/	exploras /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/	explora /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/	explorâmes /ɛk.splɔ.ʁam/	explorâtes /ɛk.splɔ.ʁat/	explorèrent /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	explorerai /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	exploreras /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	explorera /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	explorerons /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	explorerez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	exploreront /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	explorerais /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	explorerais /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	explorerait /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	explorerions /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	exploreriez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	exploreraient /ɛk.splɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	explore /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explores /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explore /ɛk.splɔʁ/	explorions /ɛk.splɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	exploriez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁje/	explorent /ɛk.splɔʁ/
	imperfect2	explorasse /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/	explorasses /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/	explorât /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa/	explorassions /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	explorassiez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sje/	explorassent /ɛk.splɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	explore /ɛk.splɔʁ/	—	explorons /ɛk.splɔ.ʁɔ̃/	explorez /ɛk.splɔ.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• explorateur, exploratrice
• exploration
• machine à explorer le temps

Further reading

• “explorer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

explōrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of explōrō

Middle French

Etymology

Latin explōrō

Verb

explorer

1. to explore

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of explorer

infinitive	simple	explorer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	explorant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		exploré
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	explore	explores	explore	explorons	explorez	explorent
	imperfect	explorois, exploroys	explorois, exploroys	exploroit, exploroyt	explorions, exploryons	exploriez, exploryez	exploroient, exploroyent
	past historic	explora	exploras	explora	explorasmes	explorastes	explorerent
	future	explorerai, exploreray	exploreras	explorera	explorerons	explorerez	exploreront
	conditional	explorerois, exploreroys	explorerois, exploreroys	exploreroit, exploreroyt	explorerions, exploreryons	exploreriez, exploreryez	exploreroient, exploreroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	explore	explores	explore	explorons	explorez	explorent
	imperfect	explorasse	explorasses	explorast	explorassions	explorassiez	explorassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	explore	—	explorons	explorez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).