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Webster 1913 Edition


Adventurer

Ad-ven′tur-er

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
aventurier
.]
1.
One who adventures;
as, the merchant
adventurers
; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
2.
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Webster 1828 Edition


Adventurer

ADVENT'URER

, n.
1.
One who hazards, or puts something at risk, as merchant-adventurers.
2.
One who seeks occasions of chance, or attempts bold, novel, or extraordinary enterprizes.

Definition 2024


adventurer

adventurer

English

Noun

adventurer (plural adventurers)

  1. One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
    • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
      European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  2. A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
  3. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
  4. (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
    • 1983, PC Mag (volume 2, number 2, July 1983, page 351)
      Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the **** of it.
    • 1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
      It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.

Synonyms

  • (soldier of fortune): see Wikisaurus:mercenary

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External links

  • adventurer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • adventurer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911