Adventurers

Word ADVENTURERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Adventurers"

What do we mean by adventurers?

One who enjoys adventures.

A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.

A soldier of fortune, a speculator.

A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means

A player of adventure games or text adventures.

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The word "adventurers" in example sentences

That slighting reference to gentlemen adventurers, with just a perceptible emphasis of the _adventurers_, was not to his taste. ❋ Unknown (1903)

When the burden of domestic duties grew grievous, and the fireside mood expanded to a constant protest against its bleak loneliness, the adventurers from the Southland, in lieu of better, paid the stipulated prices and took unto themselves native wives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maybe it has to do with the care and time they devote to their good looks, maybe it is a historical treat of mixing lighter-haired Slavs with darker-skinned adventurers from the Mediterranean for a couple of centuries, and perhaps it is simply a magic that casts its spell on everyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our mighty band of ragged adventurers is getting ready to storm the citadel. ❋ Kirizal (2009)

Those who stayed in England and provided the needed capital were called "adventurers," a word that echoes still in today's "venture capitalist." ❋ John Steele Gordon (2012)

At the end of the 1840's, when gold and silver were found in California and Nevada, the passion for profit brought quite a few adventurers from the eastern part of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2003)

About the middle of the seventeenth century certain French adventurers set out from the fortified island of St. Christopher in longboats and hoys, directing their course to the westward, there to discover new islands. ❋ Unknown (1921)

So a swarm of greedy adventurers from the North swooped down upon the South, cajoled the negroes into voting for them, and soon had the government of these states under their control. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

His purposes were vague: he planned the establishment of a colony on the new Western lands; he had relations with certain Spanish adventurers who wished the independence of Mexico; he hinted at securing the secession of the Western ❋ Albert Bushnell Hart (1898)

Some of us here, who are troubled with memories, can easily recall the revolt of Texas, which had previously and by system been filled with adventurers from the United States, and the absorption, a few years later, of that province by the Northern ❋ Unknown (1865)

I have further to communicate for your information that the proclamation issued by me, asserting the rights of the Crown to all gold in its natural place of deposit, and forbidding all persons to dig for gold without a licence, has been published in the newspapers of Oregon and Washington territories, and that, notwithstanding, some seventy or eighty adventurers from the American side have gone by the way of Fraser ❋ Unknown (1859)

One hundred thousand warriors were now assembled59 at the capital of the kingdom of the Medes and Persians; of these the greater part were Hebrews, but many Arabs, wearied of the Turkish yoke, and many gallant adventurers from the Caspian, easily converted from a vague idolatry to a religion of conquest, swelled the ranks of the army of the Lord of Hosts. ❋ Unknown (1822)

Taking the role of the cute (but obviously evil) Mira, the daughter of My Life as a King's antagonist, you are tasked with defending the tower in which she lives from 'adventurers' - the good guys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These hardy adventurers from the Eastern side of the North Sea brought with them not only that pioneering urge which in later centuries impelled them to plant their colonies in the four quarters of the globe, but also an intense love of ordered freedom which, despite the many inroads made upon it in their chequered history, they never relinquished, and a tenacious and even obstinate courage which sustained them in defeat and which their descendants, down through the centuries, have maintained even to this day. ❋ Unknown (1951)

Used 1850s and ’60s of lawless adventurers from the U.S. who tried to overthrow Central American countries. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed the novel shows this to be a successful strategy: in the Jewish army ‘the greater part were Hebrews, but many Arabs, wearied of the Turkish yoke, and many gallant adventurers from the Caspian, easily converted from a vague idolatry to a religion of conquest, swelled the ranks of the army of the “Lord of Hosts”’. 9 ❋ Unknown (2002)

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