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