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Adventurer vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

adventurer | vagabond |

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)
  • One who adventures; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
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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)
  • 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

    vagabond

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * person

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roam, as a vagabond
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • * Milton
  • To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  • * 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
  • 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.
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