explore
To examine or investigate something systematically.
Example
“The committee has been exploring alternative solutions to the problem at hand.”
Other meanings
To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
“It was around that time that the expedition began exploring the Arctic Circle.”
To examine diagnostically.
Related words
- explorable
- explorement
- explorista
- explornography
- sexplore
- exploringly
- explorer
- reexplore
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "explōrō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “explore” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.