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Adventurer vs Traveller - What's the difference?

adventurer | traveller |

As nouns the difference between adventurer and traveller

is that adventurer is one who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises while traveller is one who travels, especially to distant lands.

adventurer

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

    traveller

    Alternative forms

    * traveler (US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who travels, especially to distant lands.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • (label) A modern-day gypsy, tinker, caravan dweller, etc.
  • (label) A member of the nomadic ethnic minority.
  • A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
  • (label) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.
  • See also

    * backpacker * Irish Traveller * tourist * voyager