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navigator

[ nav-i-gey-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who navigates.
  2. a person who practices, or is skilled in, navigation, as of ships or aircraft.
  3. a person who conducts explorations by sea.
  4. British. a navvy.


navigator

/ ˈnævɪˌɡeɪtə /

noun

  1. a person who is skilled in or performs navigation, esp on a ship or aircraft
  2. (esp formerly) a person who explores by ship
  3. an instrument or device for assisting a pilot to navigate an aircraft


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Word History and Origins

Origin of navigator1

First recorded in 1580–90, navigator is from the Latin word nāvigātor a sailor, mariner. See navigate, -tor

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Example Sentences

For instance, it earned zero stars out of a potential four from the rating organization Charity Navigator.

Even so, the Money Navigator flap was a minor blip compared to the storm Orman ignited in January 2012.

But my favorite story linked—inevitably—the navigator program to ACORN.

When he realized this wasn't going to happen, he pulled out of BSA and Troop 103 became Navigator Chapter 1.

Turns out, just like the rest of us, Lincoln was a cautious navigator of the social norms of the day.

The French navigator, De Pages, passed the 81st degree of north latitude, in an attempt to reach the pole.

Champlain became a navigator early in life, and was also a quartermaster in the royal army in Brittany, from 1592 to 1598.

Martin Frobisher, the English navigator, sailed on his second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage to India.

The paddle of that most unskilful navigator, Sweeny, snapped in two, and the broad blade of it was instantly out of reach.

The sailors of the Channel are familiar with those indescribable phosphorescences, full of warning for the navigator.

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