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Definition: Adventurer |
AdventurerNoun1. A person who enjoys taking risks. 2. Someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adventurer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Adventurer \Ad*ven"tur*er\, noun. [Compare to the French expression aventurier.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are victimized by an adventurer, proves that you will be an easy prey for flatterers and designing villains. You will be unfortunate in manipulating your affairs to a smooth consistency. For a young woman to think she is an adventuress, portends that she will be too wrapped up in her own conduct to see that she is being flattered into exchanging her favors for disgrace. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: AdventurerSynonyms: explorer (n), venturer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. |
Deceiver | Imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin; (bungler); actor; (stage player). |
Experiment | Analyzer, analyst, assayist; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist; scientist, engineer, technician. |
Intention | Gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer; dicer. |
Rashness | Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer. |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adventurer |
| English words defined with "adventurer": adventuress ♦ Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Coadventurer, Condottiere, conquistador, Crichton ♦ Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt ♦ James Crichton ♦ The Admirable Crichton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adventurer": Buccaneer' ♦ Carpet-bag Adventurer ♦ Zacocia. (references) |
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Screenplays | I prefer the term adventurer. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) Look, I I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Adventurer (1972) A Western Adventurer (1921) The Adventurer (1920) Queen and Adventurer (1915) The Beloved Adventurer (1914) | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good timer, (crook |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In case of necessity, the first man of genius, or even the first adventurer you meet, suffices for a king |
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Economic History | Brunei Darussalam | In 1839, the English adventurer James Brooke arrived in Borneo and helped the Sultan put down a rebellion. (references) |
Afghanistan | The first extensive American contact with Afghanistan was made by Josiah Harlan, an adventurer from Pennsylvania who was an adviser in Afghan politics in the 1830s and reputedly inspired Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Would be King." After the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1934, the U.S. policy of helping developing nations raise their standard of living was an important factor in maintaining and improving U.S.-Afghan ties. (references) | |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Inhabited by different tribes of Indians and an inroad for every kind of adventurer, the jurisdiction of Spain may be said to have been almost exclusively confined to her garrisons. |
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| "Adventurer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.84% of the time. "Adventurer" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.84% | 115 | 30,138 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.16% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "adventurer": pilot-adventurer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "adventurer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | avonturier. (various references) | |
Albanian | aventurier (adventurous, gold digger, venturer, venturesome, Venturous). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغامر (adventurous, audacious, buccaneer, enterprising, escapade, foolhardy, gambler, rash, reckless, venturesome), المغامر (sport), المجازف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | авантюрист (argonaut, picaroon, soldier of fortune), любител на рискове, любител на приключения. (various references) | |
Chinese | '险家. (various references) | |
Czech | dobrodruh. (various references) | |
Dutch | avonturierster (female adventurer), avonturier. (various references) | |
Esperanto | aventurulo, aventuristo. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماجراجو (Venturer), حادثه جو, جسور (Bold, Boldface, Cocky, Defiant, Forward, Fresh, Hardy, Immodest, Insolent, Pert, Presuming, Presumptuous, Rude, Wanton), بی پروا (Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous). (various references) | |
Finnish | seikkailija, onnenonkija (fortune-hunter). (various references) | |
French | aventurier. (various references) | |
Frisian | aventoersman. (various references) | |
German | Abenteurer. (various references) | |
Greek | τυχοδιώκτησ (adventuress). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "רפתקן (daredevil). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerencsevadász (soldier of fortune), kalandor (conquistador, swashbuckler, venturer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | avontirir, petualang (gadabout, vagabond, voyager, wanderer), kelana (nomad, rover, wanderer). (various references) | |
Italian | avventuriero. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '険者 , '険家 , 山師 (imposter, prospector, speculator). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼうけ"しゃ, ぼうけ"か, やまし (imposter, prospector, speculator). (various references) | |
Korean | 모험가 (Argonaut). (various references) | |
Manx | fer contoyrtagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | aventurero. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adventureray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aventureiro (adventurous, chanceful, go-ahead, golddigger, highrisk, venturer, venturesome). (various references) | |
Romanian | aventurier (desperado, gold digger, knight of fortune, picaroon), vânturã-lume (carpet bagger), speculant (bear, extortioner, huckster, jobber, profiteer, racketeer, speculator). (various references) | |
Russian | авантюрист (adventurist, chevalier of fortune, chevalier of industry, gentleman of fortune, gold digger, knight of fortune, picaroon, venturer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | avanturista, pustolov (filibuster). (various references) | |
Spanish | aventurero (adventuresome, adventurous, carpet bagger). (various references) | |
Swedish | äventyrare (gadder). (various references) | |
Turkish | vurguncu (dodger, fly-by-night, jobber, looter, profiteer, racketeer, spiv), spekülatör (bear, bull, operator, plunger, speculator, stag), serüvenci (daring), maceraperest (adventurous, ruritanian, venturesome), dolandırıcı (bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, crooked, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шукач пригод, авантюрист, пройдисвіт (bounder, cheat, nib, rogue, twerp, vagabond). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người phiêu lưu, người mạo hiểm (venturer). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Turkish | 1200-Modern | quazzaq, quzzak. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adventurer": adventurers. (additional references) | |
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"Adventurer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: advanture, Adventide, adventura, Aventura, aventure, aventurer, edventure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adventurer" (pronounced adve"nkherer or udve"nkherer) |
| 3 | -kh er er | lecturer, manufacturer. |
| 3 | -kh er er | lecturer, manufacturer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: adventure, renatured, underrate. | |
-2 letters: denature, renature, returned, taverner, underate, undereat, ventured, venturer. | |
-3 letters: averred, averted, daunter, denture, natured, nervate, nervure, ravened, ravener, retread, retuned, tenured, terrane, treader, unrated, untread, vaunted, vaunter, venture, verdant, verdure, veteran. | |
-4 letters: advent, advert, anteed, ardent, avenue, darner, darter, dearer, derate, earned, earner, endear, endure, entera, enured, errand, errant, evader. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: adventurers, untraversed. | |
+2 letters: peradventure. | |
+3 letters: peradventures. | |
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