say it: NAV-uh-gay-tur
navigator is a noun meaning "the ship's officer in charge of navigation". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the ship's officer in charge of navigation
the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for navigator come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.