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adventureress

noun

Etymology

From adventurer + -ess, after earlier adventuress.

  1. derived from adventūrus
  2. derived from *adventūra✻
  3. derived from aventure
  4. inherited from aventure
  5. suffixed as adventurer — “adventure + er”
  6. suffixed as adventureress — “adventurer + ess”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of adventuress.

    • Again, if we have dangerovs^([sic]) men in the humblest ranks, we have adventureresses of late years in all ranks.
    • I’ll foil them though, the mean adventureresses!

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA