
Adventurer
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Definition of the noun adventurer
What does adventurer mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: adventurers
- a person who enjoys taking risks
- lexical domain: People - nouns denoting people
- synonym of adventurer: venturer
- more generic words: individual / mortal / person / somebody / someone / soul = a human being
- more specific terms:
- argonaut = someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- adventuress = a woman adventurer
- cowboy = someone who is reckless or irresponsible
- harum-scarum / swashbuckler / daredevil / hothead / lunatic / madcap = a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- risk taker / gambler = someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement
- hotspur = a rash or impetuous person
- soldier of fortune / mercenary = a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- mountain climber / mountaineer = someone who climbs mountains
- speculator / plunger = someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- instance: Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt / Giovanni Jacopo Casanova / Casanova de Seingalt / Casanova = an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
- lexical domain: People - nouns denoting people
- synonym of adventurer: explorer
- more generic words: individual / mortal / person / somebody / someone / soul = a human being
- more specific terms:
- conquistador = an adventurer
- underwater diver / frogman / diver = someone who works underwater
- navigator = in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
- spelaeologist / speleologist / spelunker / potholer = a person who explores caves
- instances:
- Roald Amundsen / Amundsen = Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole
- Robert Abram Bartlett / Robert Bartlett / Captain Bob / Bartlett = United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville / Bougainville = French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists
- Sir Richard Francis Burton / Sir Richard Burton / Richard Burton / Burton = English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika
- Richard Evelyn Byrd / Richard E. Byrd / Admiral Byrd / Byrd = explorer and United States naval officer
- Sebastian Cabot / Cabot = son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil
- Samuel de Champlain / Champlain = French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec
- William Clark / Clark = United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River
- Francisco Fernandez de Cordova / Francisco Fernandez Cordoba / Cordoba / Cordova = Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan
- Jacques Yves Costeau / Jacques Costeau / Cousteau = French underwater explorer
- Sir Matthew Flinders / Matthew Flinders / Flinders = British explorer who mapped the Australian coast
- John Charles Fremont / John C. Fremont / Fremont = United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest
- Sir Martin Frobisher / Frobisher = English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient
- Charles Francis Hall / Hall = United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic
- Louis Jolliet / Louis Joliet / Jolliet / Joliet = French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley
- Rene-Robert Cavelier / Sieur de LaSalle / LaSalle = French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France
- Meriwether Lewis / Lewis = United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River
- David Livingstone / Livingstone = Scottish missionary and explorer who discovered the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls
- Sir Alexander Mackenzie / Mackenzie = Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North America by land north of Mexico
- Fridtjof Nansen / Nansen = Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I
- Mungo Park / Park = Scottish explorer in Africa
- Robert Edwin Peary / Robert E. Peary / Robert Peary / Peary = United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole
- Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen / Rasmussen = Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer
- Sir James Clark Ross / James Clark Ross / Ross = British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica
- Sir John Ross / John Ross / Ross = Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage
- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft / Schoolcraft = United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River
- Robert Falcon Scott / Robert Scott / Scott = English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen
- Captain John Smith / John Smith / Smith = English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
- John Hanning Speke / John Speke / Speke = English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley / Henry M. Stanley / John Rowlands / Stanley = Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871
- Otto Neumann Sverdrup / Sverdrup = Norwegian explorer who led expeditions into the Arctic
- Sebastian Vizcaino / Vizcaino = Spanish explorer who was the first European to explore the California coast
- Charles Wilkes / Wilkes = United States explorer of Antarctica
- George Hubert Wilkins / Wilkins = Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane
Alternative definition of the noun adventurer
noun
- One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
- A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
- A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
Characters
- Adventurer is a fictional character from the comedy fantasy short film The Dungeon Master.
- in the film "The Dungeon Master", played by Chris Levitus
- Adventurer is a fictional character from the comedy fantasy short film The Dungeon Master.
- in the film "The Dungeon Master", played by John Pfeiffer
- Adventurer is a fictional character from the comedy fantasy short film The Dungeon Master.
- in the film "The Dungeon Master", played by Shelby Fenner
- Adventurer is a fictional character from the comedy fantasy short film The Dungeon Master.
- in the film "The Dungeon Master", played by Jason Marsden
Writings
"Adventurer" a.k.a. "The adventurer" is a book by Jayne Ann Krentz.
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Music
"Adventurer" is a composition.
- music and lyrics by Lou Reed
Miscellanea
Adventurer is a profession.
Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Adventurer
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Paris Hollywood (2002)
Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
A few samples: The adventurer is an outlaw. Adventure must start with running away from home.
Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire (2001)
The Rose-colored Vision by Laurence Kitzan
Considine, however, is the philosopher of the relationship between adventurers and empire. An adventurer is a simple man, whose yeaming for the wild places is the proper ambition for a real man, in contrast to the ambitions of an "'ordinary ...
Treasure Hunter (2014)
A Memoir of Caches, Curses, and Confrontations by W. C. Jameson
The true adventurer is the one who escapes the treadmill of the obvious. —Chris Bonington. Ihad. heard versions of the tale about the Jesse James treasure cache for years. In fact, a number of treasure ...
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents for Pleading and Practice, at Common Law, in Equity, and Under the Various Codes and Practice Acts (1902)
by William Henry Michael, William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash, Thomas Edward O'Brien, James Cockcroft
And the said Attorney-General saith, that after the publication of the said conditions, viz: the 8th of July, 1631, Thomas Todd, an Englishman, and an adventurer, as the said Attorney-General supposeth, came into this Province to reside and ...
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents for Pleading and Practice (1902)
At Common Law, in Equity, and Under the Various Codes and Practice Acts by William Henry Michael, William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash, James Cockroft, Thomas Edward O'Brien
', 1651, Thoma: Todd, an English/mm, and an adventurer, as the said Attorney-Generalsupposeth, came into this Province to reside and plant ...
The Excelsior pronouncing dictionary of the English language (1876)
by William Nicholson (of Halifax.)
AEROSTATICS AFFIRM 13 Adventurer, (ad-vent' ur-er) n. one that hazards; tries. Adventurously, (ad-ven'- tur-us-le) boldly ; daringly ; in a manner to incur hazard. Adventuresome, (ad-vent'- ur-sum) a. bold ; daring. Adventurous, (ad-vent'ur- ...
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A family of Mute Swans near Galway Harbour. One cygnet was much more adventurous than the others, wandering down the seaweed slope, mother kept an eye on him all the time.
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ASTRAL ADVENTURER
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Adventurer Meaning
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Waterman Adventurer's Club: Love In Any Language
"Adventurer Talent Night" A Valentine presentation of the Waterman Visayan Fil-Am SDA Church 's Adventurers and Staff. Love In Any Language served as the ...
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Quotes about Adventurer
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
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Scrabble value of A1D2V4E1N1T1U1R1E1R1
The value of this 10-letter word is 14 points. It is included in the first and second editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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