Meaning

5 senses
  1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.

    Navigator

    шту́рманštúrman, навига́торnavigátor

    шту́рманštúrman

    the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course

  2. A sea explorer.

    Seefahrer

    морепла́вательmoreplávatelʹ, морепла́вательницаmoreplávatelʹnica

    морепла́вецьmoreplávecʹ, морепла́вицяmoreplávycja

  3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.

  4. A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.

  5. (obsolete)A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. According to the inscription, it used to belong to a famous navigator.

  2. The navigator calculated the azimuth of the sun to determine their position at sea.

  3. He's not a good navigator.

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  4. He's a very bad navigator.

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  5. My GPS navigator doesn't work abroad.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
officer who navigates:
sea explorer:
Русский
By meaning 2
officer who navigates:
sea explorer:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
officer who navigates:
sea explorer:

Origin

From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or.

From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or.

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Forms

plural: navigators
Singularnavigator
Pluralnavigators

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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