VENTURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venturer mean? 

• VENTURER (noun)
  The noun VENTURER has 2 senses:

1. a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)

2. a person who enjoys taking risks

  Familiarity information: VENTURER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

merchant-venturer; venturer

Hypernyms ("venturer" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who enjoys taking risks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adventurer; venturer

Hypernyms ("venturer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "venturer"):

argonaut (someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure)

adventuress (a woman adventurer)

cowboy (someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles))

daredevil; harum-scarum; hothead; lunatic; madcap; swashbuckler (a reckless impetuous irresponsible person)

gambler; risk taker (someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement)

hotspur (a rash or impetuous person)

mercenary; soldier of fortune (a person hired to fight for another country than their own)

mountain climber; mountaineer (someone who climbs mountains)

plunger; speculator (someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains)

Instance hyponyms:

Casanova; Casanova de Seingalt; Giovanni Jacopo Casanova; Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt (an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798))

Derivation:

venture (proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers)

venture (put at risk)