English

Noun

adventurer ‎(plural adventurers)

1. One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
   • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, 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.

2. A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
3. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
4. (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
   • 1983, PC Mag (volume 2, number 2, July 1983, 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 **** 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

• (soldier of fortune): see Wikisaurus:mercenary

Related terms

• adventuress

Translations

External links

• adventurer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• adventurer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911