explore

Meanings

1. To seek for something or after someone.
2. To examine or investigate something systematically.
3. To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
4. To examine diagnostically.
5. To (seek) experience first hand.
6. To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
7. To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
8. To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats.

1. An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin plōrō Latin explōrōder. Middle French explorerder. English explore From Middle French explorer, from Latin explōrāre (“to investigate, search out”), itself said to be originally a hunters' term meaning "to set up a loud cry", from ex- (“out”) + plōrāre (“to cry”), but the second element is also explained as "to make to flow" (from pluere (“to flow”)).