Adventurer
Pronunciation
- US: IPA: /ædˈvɛn.tʃɚ.ɚ/
Full definition of adventurer
Noun
adventurer
(plural adventurers)- One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
- 2013-01, Nancy Langston, The Fraught History of a Watery World, 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 soldier of fortune, a speculator.
- A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
- (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 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.