Word Meanings - VENTURER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl. 2. A strumpet; a prostitute. J. Webster .

Related words: (words related to VENTURER)

• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• WEBSTERITE
  A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses.
• HAZARDRY
  1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. Chaucer. 2. Rashness; temerity. Spenser.
• ADVENTURER
  1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. 2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
• HAZARDER
  1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. Chaucer. 2. One who hazards or ventures.
• PROSTITUTE
  1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute
• HAZARDOUS
  Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton. Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
• HAZARD
  Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --
• WEBSTER
  A weaver; originally, a female weaver. Brathwait.
• HAZARDABLE
  1. Liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. Sir T. Browne. 2. Such as can be hazarded or risked.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• HAPHAZARD
  Extra hazard; chance; accident; random. We take our principles at haphazard, upon trust. Locke.