Definition of Explorers

1. Noun. (plural of explorer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Explorers

1. explorer [n] - See also: explorer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Explorers

exploratorily
exploratoriness
exploratorium
exploratoriums
exploratory
exploratory behaviour
exploratory committee
exploratory drive
exploratory survey
explore
explored
explorement
explorements
explorer
explorer's gentian
explorers (current term)
explores
exploring
exploring electrode
exploring needle
explorings
explorista
exploristas
explornography
explosibility
explosible
explosimeter
explosimeters
explosion
explosion-proof

Literary usage of Explorers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America by Frederick Whymper (1868)
"First explorers of the Yukon — Nulato — Qur quarters — Water sledge — Fish traps — Winter sketching — Frozen provisions — Coldest day — Departure of a ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"In the reports of the Survey this man is simply called A—k, in conformity with a long-standing custom of suppressing the names of the explorers while they ..."

3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"In that day, all explorers travelled with an outfit of priests. De Soto had twenty-four with him. ..."

4. A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races by HARRY HAMILTON. JOHNSTON (1899)
"The first explorers known to history, though not, unfortunately, mentioned by name, were those Phoenicians despatched by the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho (son of ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Italian explorers in New Guinea. By Professor GIGLIOLI. Much scientific work in New Guinea has been done by Italian explorers, while a very great deal still ..."

6. Guide to the Study and Reading of American History by Edward Channing, Albert Bushnell Hart, Frederick Jackson Turner (1912)
"1851), I, 544-577; FW Hodge and TH Lewis, Spanish explorers in the Southern ... Early French explorers Summary. — The French fishermen, were they on the ..."

7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"P. Bailey. New Repub 4:45-6 Ag 14 '15 See also Medical jurisprudence Expert testimony. See Expert evidence explorers Light reading for polar explorers. ..."

8. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"NEGRO COMPANIONS OF THE SPANISH explorers' BY RR WRIGHT The fact seems to be well established that Negroes were introduced into the New World with the first ..."

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