Nomad vs Adventurer - What's the difference?
nomad | adventurer |
A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= A wanderer.
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=
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)
* 1992 , Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness'' (game review in ''Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)
As nouns the difference between nomad and adventurer
is that nomad is nomad while adventurer is one who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.As an adjective nomad
is nomadic.nomad
English
Noun
(wikipedia nomad) (en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Derived terms
* grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadismAnagrams
* * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}adventurer
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- 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.
- It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer , and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.