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Ventured vs Venturer - What's the difference?

ventured | venturer |

As a verb ventured

is past tense of venture.

As a noun venturer is

one who ventures; a traveller or explorer.

ventured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (venture)

  • venture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
  • My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
  • An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.

    Verb

    (ventur)
  • To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  • * J. Dryden, Jr.
  • who freights a ship to venture on the seas
  • To risk or offer.
  • to venture funds
    to venture a guess
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
  • to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
  • To put or send on a venture or chance.
  • to venture a horse to the West Indies
  • To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
  • * Addison
  • A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
  • To say something.
  • Derived terms

    * venture capital

    venturer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) One who ventures; a traveller or explorer.
  • (business) One who undertakes a business venture.