- One that seeks adventure.
- A soldier of fortune.
- A heavy speculator in stocks, business, or trade.
- One that attempts to gain wealth and social position by unscrupulous means.
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noun
The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
a person who enjoys taking risks
Synonym: venturer
Meaning #2:
someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
Synonym: explorer
An adventurer or adventuress is a term that usually takes one of three meanings:
In fiction, the adventurer figure or Picaro may be regarded as a descendant of the knight-errant of Medieval romance. Like the knight, the adventurer roams through episodic encounters, usually involving wealth, romance, or fighting. Unlike the knight, the adventurer was a realistic figure, often lower class or otherwise impoverished, who is forced to make his way to fortune, often by deceit. The picaresque novel originated in Spain in the middle of the fifteenth century. Novels such as Lazarillo de Tormes were influential across Europe. Throughout the eighteenth century, a great number of novels featured bold, amoral, adventuring protagonists, who made their way into wealth and happiness, sometimes with and sometimes without the moral conversion that generally accompanies the Spanish model.
Under Victorian morality the term, used without qualifiers, came to imply a person of low moral character, often someone trying to marry for money (Lord Barkis Bitteren of the movie Corpse Bride is such a character).
In comic book handbooks such as Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and , the term "adventurer" is used as a synonym for "super-hero" when listing a character's occupation.
In role-playing games, the player characters are often professional adventurers, who earn wealth and fame by adventure, such as undertaking hazardous missions, exploring ruins, and slaying monsters. This stereotype is strong enough that the adventurers can often be used as a synonym for the player characters. However non-player character groups of adventurers can also exist, and can be an interesting encounter for the players.
See also: adventure.
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Nederlands (Dutch)
avonturier, speculant
Français (French)
n. - aventurier
Deutsch (German)
n. - Abenteurer
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άνθρωπος των περιπετειών, τυχοδιώκτης, τολμηρός επιχειρηματίας
Italiano (Italian)
avventuriero, soldato di ventura
Português (Portuguese)
n. - aventureiro (m), empreendedor (m)
Русский (Russian)
искатель приключений, авантюрист
Español (Spanish)
n. - aventurero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - äventyrare, lycksökare
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
冒险者, 用不正当手段谋求名利者, 雇佣兵, 投机者
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 冒險者, 用不正當手段謀求名利者, 雇傭兵, 投機者
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 모험가, 투기사, 협잡군
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 冒険家, 投機師, 相場師, 山師
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مغامر, مجازف
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - שוחר הרפתקות, הרפתקן
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