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adventurer

[ ad-ven-cher-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures.
a seeker of fortune in daring enterprises; soldier of fortune.
a person who undertakes great commercial risk; speculator.
a person who seeks power, wealth, or social rank by unscrupulous or questionable means:
They thought John was an adventurer and after their daughter's money.
Usually Adventurer. a member of Camp Fire, Inc., who is between the ages of 9 and 11.

adventurer

/ ədˈvɛntʃərə /

a person who seeks adventure, esp one who seeks success or money through daring exploits
a person who seeks money or power by unscrupulous means
a speculator

First recorded in 1475–85; adventure + -er ¹

When I picture Jackman in fedora-wearing adventurer mode, it reminds me of his turn in the Baz Luhrmann bomb Australia.

Adventurer journalist Robert Young Pelton is crowdfunding a trip to find African warlord Joseph Kony.

He was an adventurer and thrill seeker, but also an ardent radical socialist.

No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes.

I want to be able to, at any point, go to the movies or out to dinner or fly to Vancouver (I know, I'm an adventurer).

And we will also settle and assure the particular rights and interests of every planter and adventurer.

He usually wore his pale-grey felt hat at a slight angle, and had the air of the easy-going adventurer, debonair and unscrupulous.

Still, he cultivated his easy-going cosmopolitanism to pose as a careless adventurer.

The crowd laughed; and another adventurer, nothing dismayed, succeeded him in the attempt, and in the failure.

Their eyes fixed, their mouths agape, their hands clasped, they listened with increasing avidity to the Gascon adventurer.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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