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Spell Bee Word: Explorer


What does explorer mean?

Word: Explorer

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Explorer means a person who travels to unknown places to find out about them.

Synonyms: adventurer, voyager

How do you spell explorer?

Syllables: ex - plor - er

Tricky part: The person word ends in er, not or. Children who know sailor and actor often write exploror.

Watch out for: exploror, explorrer

Memory tip: An explorer is a person, and this person ends in er, the same as a farmer or a teacher, not or.

Explorer in a sentence

Example 1: The explorer crossed the desert on a camel.

Example 2: Freya wants to be a space explorer when she grows up.

Example 3: Early explorers used the stars to find their way at sea.

Fun Fact

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, now Kozhikode in Kerala, by sea in 1498.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rolpexer

a) employer
b) explode
c) explorer
d) exporter

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c) explorer. Two r's and no t, d or m among the letters: explorer.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) compas
b) mountian
c) jungel
d) explorer

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d) explorer. Compass ends in ss, mountain has ai and jungle ends in le; explorer is spelt right.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: explorer

a) builder
b) traveller
c) guard
d) teacher

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b) traveller. An explorer is a traveller who goes to unknown places.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The explorer climbed the steep hill to watch the sunrise over the vally.

a) sunrise
b) explorer
c) steep
d) vally

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d) vally. Valley ends in ey.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these people was a famous explorer?

a) William Shakespeare
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Isaac Newton
d) Jane Austen

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b) Christopher Columbus

2. A person who explores space is better known as...

a) an aviator
b) an astrologer
c) an astronaut
d) an astronomer

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c) an astronaut

Associated Words

Words that end in -rer: lecturer, treasurer, upholsterer

More words from this list

inability, microchip, prediction, semicircle, tour, admittance, campus, delta

Next steps

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