Definitions for pathfinder

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pathfinder path·find·er

Spelling: [path-fahyn-der, pahth‐]

IPA: /ˈpæθˌfaɪn dər, ˈpɑθ‐/

Pathfinder is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 852 anagrams from letters in pathfinder (adefhinprt).

Definitions for pathfinder

noun

1. a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
2. an airplane, or a person dropped from a plane, sent into a target area to illuminate the area for succeeding aircraft.
3. a radar beacon beamed into a target area to provide guidance for missiles seeking the target.
4. (initial capital letter) an unmanned spacecraft that landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, to obtain climatic and geologic data.
5. a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.

Origin of pathfinder

An Americanism dating back to 1830-40; path + finder

Examples for pathfinder

So you see, to begin with, our pathfinder tells us the enemy ahead are three in number.

He was "the pathfinder," and second only to Daniel Boone as a frontier hero.

It is Kit Carson who might better have the title of pathfinder.

pathfinder showed off handsomely that day before the ladies.

This exploit is worthy of description at the hands of the pathfinder himself.

When the pathfinder was struck the order was given, Every man for himself.

It had been arranged that Elmer was to act as pathfinder and tracker.

Thus ended his first expedition, which began his reputation as a pathfinder.

Eventually, he packed up his Nissan pathfinder and drove back to Iowa.

Besides this, they must read the messages left occasionally by their pathfinder.