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# navigator

«navigator» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who works out the route of a ship, plane or car…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a navigator, navigators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who works out the route of a ship, plane or car and tells the driver or pilot where to go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#m1)

2) A sat-nav or app that shows the way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#m2)

3) (history) A sailor-explorer who found new sea routes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons, navigators used stars, maps and compasses to cross oceans. On car trips the person with the map is the navigator. In maths, a navigator uses distances, directions and bearings. Phrases: act as navigator, a great navigator.

### examples

- Dad drove and I was the navigator with the map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x1)
- The navigator used the stars to find the way at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x2)
- Captain Cook was a famous navigator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x3)
- The plane's navigator checked the course. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x4)
- Our phone's navigator told us to turn left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x5)
- Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific in canoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x6)
- Be a good navigator and read the signs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/#x7)

### note

Countable. Ends in -or, not -er. Verb: navigate; noun: navigation. In maths a navigator works with compass directions (north, east), distances and angles called bearings.

### In the corpora

- [Tupaia, a navigator from Tahiti, sailed with Cook, helped guide the ship and helped him talk with the Māori.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/10/)
- [Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific by reading the stars, the waves and the flight of birds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «navigator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/navigator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.