Other forms: adventurers
An adventurer is somebody who seeks out risk and excitement. A famous adventurer, an Arctic adventurer, adventurers and explorers.
It is admiring of the person who climbs and sails, and much less so of the older sense: an adventurer was once somebody living by their wits and by other people's money, which is why a political adventurer is an insult. Note adventuress, the feminine form, which was almost always an accusation.
1nounadventurerSomebody who seeks out risk and excitement.
“As a young adventurer, he climbed mountains and crossed deserts on foot.”
adventurer is a risk-seeker.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷem-
Middle English
aventure
English
adventure
English, today
adventurer
Built from
From adventure + -er. adventure comes from Middle English aventure. From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, Vulgar Latin about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). by surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA