Associations to the word «Reconnoitre»

Wiktionary

RECONNOITRE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive) (military) To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of gaining information.
RECONNOITRE, verb. (obsolete) To recognise.
RECONNOITRE, noun. An act or instance of reconnoitring.

Dictionary definition

RECONNOITRE, verb. Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin