navigator

From Latin nāvigātor.^[1] By surface analysis, navigate +‎ -or.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/

• Audio (US):

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navigator (plural navigators)

1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
   • 2024 January 24, Tami Luhby, “Obamacare sign-ups hit record 21.3 million as Biden pushes his efforts to lower health care costs”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy.
     At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.

2. A sea explorer.
   • 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 June 2021:

     He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.

3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
   • 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:

     Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

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

• inertial navigator
• navigatrix

• navigate
• navigation

From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix).

nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension

1. a sailor or mariner

Third-declension noun.

• French: navigateur
• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Romanian: navigator
• Spanish: navegador
• Venetan: navigadóre

nāvigātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of nāvigō

• “navigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navigator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• навигатор (navigator) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga +‎ -tor.

navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

   Synonyms: browser, explorator

• “navigator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025