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.

Noun

(en noun)

One who explores something

A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.

Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.

(computing, graphical user interface) A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

* 2007 , Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise

For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.