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adventureress

adventureress is the alternative form of adventuress.

Meaning of adventuress

Noun

adventuress (plural adventuresses)

  1. A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
  2. A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
    • The ingenious adventuress, who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 337
  3. A female varietist.
    • And even an iconic movie star like Amitabh Bachchan is not embarrassed to state he approves of actress Aishwarya because she is "homely and domesticated" (read: not a sexual adventuress).2008, Shobba De, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable, pages 90–01

Forms of adventureress

pluraladventureresses

Origin of adventureress

From adventurer + -ess, after earlier adventuress.

Questions about adventureress

What is adventureress the alternative form of?
Adventureress is the alternative form of adventuress.

Words near adventureress in the dictionary

  1. adventureless
  2. adventurelessness
  3. adventurement
  4. adventurements
  5. adventurer
  6. adventureress
  7. adventureresses
  8. adventurers
  9. adventurership
  10. adventures
  11. adventuresome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adventureress (page history and authors); adventuress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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