Adventurer vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
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One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
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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)
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 12
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
As nouns the difference between adventurer and vagabond
is that adventurer is one who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.As a verb vagabond is
to roam, as a vagabond.As an adjective vagabond is
floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.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.
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* (soldier of fortune) seeExternal links
* *vagabond
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
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* personAdjective
(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.