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.

read more about The adventurer

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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The Game of the North Ludum Praecepta

by Jeremiah Methuseleh

The Zombie Adventurer is a vanishingly rare breed – a being for whom thought & memory remain after the brain is...

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 ...

A Dictionary of English Phrases (1922)

Phraseological Allusions, Catchwords, Stereotyped Modes of Speech and Metaphors, Nicknames, Sobriquets, Derivations from Personal Names, Etc., with Explanations and Thousands of Exact References to Their Sources Or Early Usage by Albert Montefiore Hyamson

Adventurer ; Merchant Adventurer : one engaged in a trading expedition in the 16th or 17th cent., or a member of a society ...

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar, 1700-1800 (1991)

by Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge, Kari E. Haugland

E4→F1 Bu66:178 (ADVENTURER): "Hence it frequently happens ...

A Dictionary of Printers and Printing (1839)

With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc by Charles Henry Timperley

The Adventurer. This admired paper was the production of Dr.-Hawkesworth.* It is adorned with many eastern tales, and some valuable critical communications. It was rinted on a folio sheet, for J. Payne, at Pope's ead, in Paternoster-row ...