Definition of navigate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
When fish, animals, or insects navigate somewhere, they find the right direction to go and travel there. In tests, the bees navigate back home after being placed in a field a mile away.
NAVIGATE meaning: 1 : to find the way to get to a place when you are traveling in a ship, airplane, car, etc. often used figuratively; 2 : to sail on, over, or through an area of water
to walk or find one's way on, in, or across: [~ + object] It was hard to navigate the stairs in the dark. [no object] Do you think you can navigate through the downtown area safely?
