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n. One that seeks adventure.

n. A soldier of fortune.

n. A heavy speculator in stocks, business, or trade.

n. One that attempts to gain wealth and social position by unscrupulous means.

n. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.

n. A soldier of fortune, a speculator.

n. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.

n. A player of adventure games or text adventures.

n. One who adventures; ; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.

n. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

n. One who engages in adventure; an undertaker of uncertain or hazardous actions or enterprises, as in travel, war, trade, speculation, etc.: as, the Young Adventurer, a title given to Prince Charles Edward Stuart on account of his leading the desperate insurrection of 1745.

n. In general, one who undertakes any great commercial risk or speculation; a speculator; in mining, a shareholder in or promoter of mines, particularly under the cost-book system. See cost-book.

n. In a bad sense, a seeker of fortune by underhand or equivocal means; a speculator upon the credulity or good nature of others; especially, one who ingratiates himself with society by false show or pretense in order to gain a surreptitious livelihood.

n. a person who enjoys taking risks

n. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

"The word adventurer has been through a half-millennium of exciting times."

merchant adventurers    adventurer tunnel   

adventuress   

free lance    condottiere    landloper    landlouper   

explorer    traveller    statesman    speculator    settler    trader    pirate    scholar    nobleman    scoundrel