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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that explores, especially one that explores a geographic area.
  • noun An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
  • noun A person aged 14–20 who is a participant in the exploring program of the Boy Scouts of America.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which explores: oftenest applied to a geographical worker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who explores something
  • noun A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
  • noun Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
  • noun computing, graphical user interface A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a commercial browser
  • noun someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to explore + -er.

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