Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who seeks social and financial advancement by unscrupulous means.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female adventurer; a woman engaged in or capable of bold enterprises, especially enterprises of equivocal character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A female
adventurer ; a woman who seeks adventure. - noun A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a
demirep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman adventurer
Etymologies
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Examples
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Despite her aloofness, Mrs. Grant did now and then steal a glance at Mrs. Pope to see if this brazen creature [526] would betray in any manner the fact that she was sleeping with the senator, but the adventuress was a wily one who disclosed nothing.
Space Michener, James 1982
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"Hum -- maybe my adventuress was the same person in disguise," Mr. Palmer thoughtfully observed.
Mona Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884
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Meanwhile, Irene Adler has been running around as the kind of adventuress I thought "adventuress" meant when I was a little kid reading the first few paragraphs of "A Scandal in Bohemia".
Aliens in This World 2009
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It was exciting, it was really valuable, to have to that extent rubbed shoulders with an "adventuress"; it showed one that for the adventuress there might on occasion be much to be said.
A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879
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"adventuress," which has an ugly sound, but of which no one exactly knows the precise meaning, began to be bruited about.
Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron
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"adventuress" in thinking of herself, as being more genteel and mentally aristocratic than the cruder words by which Barney and Old
Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902
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Carstairs' wife, the mysterious foreign adventuress.
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Think Buenos Aires, runaway Nazis, giant dice in the opening shot and musical numbers – all grafted on to a three-way melodrama of outrageous sexual provocation and emotional blackmail that's played like a minuet by scheming adventuress Hayworth and her two knock-kneed beaus itinerant gambler Glenn Ford and scarfaced casino boss George Macready on a gigantic, lavishly appointed set that amounts to a fantasia on mid-century Hollywood's notions of Latin-Americanness.
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Frankie then sets off for Paris and en route keeps company with a spinster adventuress.
Thomas Gladysz: She's So Unusual: The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt Thomas Gladysz 2011
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Of the specials, the second, Planet of the Dead (disc two), is my favorite, because it introduced the high-class thief and adventuress Lady Christina, played by Michelle Ryan (The Bionic Woman).
Doctor Who: The Complete Specials » DVDs Worth Watching 2010
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