venturer
See also: Venturer
English
Etymology
venture + -er
Noun
venturer (plural venturers)
- One who ventures; a traveller or explorer.
- 2002, H. Paul Jeffers, Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer, →ISBN, page 60:
- Pleased to be a solitary venturer, he spent the next three weeks on an odyssey in search of these delights.
- 2005, Donald Beecher, “Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic”, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 36, number 4, JSTOR 20477588, page 998:
- Tellingly, after demonstrating his virility as a venturer to India, where he made his fortune, he married upon his return.
- 2012, Duncan Clarke, Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny. How the Past Is Shaping Africa’s Economic Evolution, →ISBN, page 67:
- Some of the earliest venturers into Africa before colonisation were missionaries, who spread into Southern and Eastern Africa as well as other regions.
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- (business) One who undertakes a business venture.
Derived terms
- Venturer Scout