rec·on·noi·tre reconnoitres reconnoitring reconnoitred in AM, use reconnoiter To reconnoitre an area means to obtain information about its geographical features or about the size and position of an army there. He was sent to Eritrea to reconnoitre the enemy position I left a sergeant in command and rode forward to reconnoitre
() From French reconnoître (obsolete spelling of reconnaître), from Latin recognoscere (“to recognize”). Contrarily, there is also an obsolete 19th-century British English spelling reconnaitre (now reconnoitre).