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Adventurer vs Endeavor - What's the difference?

adventurer | endeavor |

As nouns the difference between adventurer and endeavor

is that adventurer is one who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises while endeavor is a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

As a verb endeavor is

(obsolete) to exert oneself.

adventurer

English

(wikipedia adventurer) (Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
  • A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
  • A social pretender on the lookout for advancement; one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means, as false pretences.
  • (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
  • * 1983 , PC Mag (volume 2, number 2, July 1983, page 351)
    • Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.
  • * 1992 , Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness'' (game review in ''Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
    • It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer , and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.

    Synonyms

    * (soldier of fortune) see

    Related terms

    * adventuress

    External links

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    endeavor

    English

    (wikipedia endeavor)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
  • * 1640 , , part II, chapter 28:
    • And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex ; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour , the good of the people.
  • * 1873 , , volume 2, page 184:
    • As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.
  • Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 9:
    • The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To exert oneself.
  • * Alexander Pope:
    • And such were praised who but endeavoured well.
  • To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
  • * 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 2:
    • The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.
  • (obsolete) To attempt (something).
  • * Ld. Chatham:
    • It is our duty to endeavour the recovery of these beneficial subjects.
  • * 1669 May 18, Sir Isaac Newton, Letter (to Francis Aston):
    • If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.
  • To work with purpose.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}

    Synonyms

    * strive