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adventurer

 
Noun adventurer has 2 senses
  1. adventurer, venturer - a person who enjoys taking risks
    --1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --1 has particulars:
     argonaut; adventuress; cowboy; daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum-scarum; gambler, risk taker; hotspur; mercenary, soldier of fortune; mountaineer, mountain climber; parachutist, parachuter, parachute jumper; speculator, plunger; Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
    Derived forms: verb adventure1, verb adventure2
  2. explorer, adventurer - someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
    --2 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --2 has particulars:
     conquistador; diver, frogman, underwater diver; navigator; potholer, spelunker, speleologist, spelaeologist; Amundsen, Roald Amundsen; Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Robert Abram Bartlett, Captain Bob; Bougainville, Louis Antoine de Bougainville; Burton, Richard Burton, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton; Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Admiral Byrd; Cabot, Sebastian Cabot; Champlain, Samuel de Champlain; Clark, William Clark; Cordoba, Francisco Fernandez Cordoba, Cordova, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova; Cousteau, Jacques Costeau, Jacques Yves Costeau; Flinders, Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders; Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Charles Fremont; Frobisher, Sir Martin Frobisher; Hall, Charles Francis Hall; Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet; LaSalle, Sieur de LaSalle, Rene-Robert Cavelier; Lewis, Meriwether Lewis; Livingstone, David Livingstone; Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Mackenzie; Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen; Park, Mungo Park; Peary, Robert Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary; Pizarro, Francisco Pizarro; Rasmussen, Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen; Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross; Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross; Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Scott, Robert Scott, Robert Falcon Scott; Smith, John Smith, Captain John Smith; Speke, John Speke, John Hanning Speke; Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands; Sverdrup, Otto Neumann Sverdrup; Vizcaino, Sebastian Vizcaino; Wilkes, Charles Wilkes; Wilkins, George Hubert Wilkins
    Derived form: verb adventure1
adventity adventive adventure-filled adventure-seeking adventure, adventure adventure story adventureous adventurer adventurers adventures adventuresome adventuress adventuring adventurism adventuristic adventurous

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