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English
Etymology
From adventure + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
adventurer (plural adventurers)
- One who enjoys adventures.
2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 January 2013, page 59:European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
- A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
- A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
- A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
- (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
1983 July, PC Mag, volume 2, number 2, page 351:Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.
- 1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
- It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who enjoys adventures
- Arabic: مُغَامِر m (muḡāmir), مُغَامِرَة f (muḡāmira), مُخاطِر m (muḵāṭir), مُخاطِرَة f (muḵāṭira)
- Azerbaijani: avantürist, macəraçı
- Basque: abenturazale
- Belarusian: авантуры́ст m (avanturýst), авантуры́стка f (avanturýstka), аванту́рнiк m (avantúrnik), аванту́рнiца f (avantúrnica)
- Bulgarian: авантюри́ст (bg) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (bg) f (avantjurístka)
- Catalan: aventurer m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 冒險者／冒险者 (zh) (màoxiǎnzhě)
- Czech: dobrodruh (cs) m
- Dutch: avonturier (nl) m
- Esperanto: aventuristo
- Finnish: seikkailija (fi)
- French: aventurier (fr) m, aventurière (fr) f
- Galician: aventureiro m
- German: Abenteurer (de) m, Abenteurerin (de) f
- Greek: τυχοδιώκτης (el) m (tychodióktis), τυχοδιώκτρια (el) f (tychodióktria)
- Hebrew: הַרְפַּתְקָן (he) m (harpatkán), הרפתקנית f (harpatkanít)
- Hungarian: kalandor (hu), felfedező (hu)
- Indonesian: petualang (id)
- Italian: avventuriero (it) m, venturiero m
- Japanese: 冒険家 (ja) (ぼうけんか, bōkenka)
- Korean: 모험가(冒險家) (ko) (moheomga)
- Maori: kaikapua, kaewa, kiri māia
- Persian: ماجراجو (fa) (mâjarâju), هنگامهطلب (hangâme-talab)
- Polish: awanturnik (pl) m, awanturnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: aventureiro (pt) m
- Russian: авантюри́ст (ru) m (avantjuríst), авантюри́стка (ru) f (avantjurístka) (now means an unscrupulous person), иска́тель приключе́ний m (iskátelʹ priključénij), иска́тельница приключе́ний f (iskátelʹnica priključénij)
- Sicilian: vintureri m
- Slovak: dobrodruh m
- Spanish: aventurero (es) m, aventurera f
- Swedish: äventyrare (sv) c
- Tajik: моҷароҷӯ (mojarojü), ҳангоматалаб (hangomatalab)
- Thai: นักผจญภัย
- Turkish: maceraperest (tr), maceracı (tr)
- Ukrainian: авантюри́ст (uk) m (avantjurýst), авантюри́стка (uk) f (avantjurýstka), шука́ч приго́д m (šukáč pryhód), шука́чка приго́д f (šukáčka pryhód)
- Volapük: (♂♀) ventüran (vo), (♂) hiventüran, (♀) jiventüran
- Yiddish: אַוואַנטוריסט m (avanturist), אַוואַנטוריסטקע f (avanturistke)
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social pretender on the lookout for advancement
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Further reading
- “adventurer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “adventurer”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
