Adventuress is an English word with synonyms like adventurer or venturer. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Adventuress meaning
- A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
- A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
- A female varietist.
Synonyms of Adventuress
Using Adventuress
- The main meaning on this page is: A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure. | A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep. | A female varietist.
- Useful related words include: adventurer, venturer.
Context around Adventuress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adventuress
- In this selection, "adventuress" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, schooner and unscrupulous stand out and add context to how "adventuress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an unscrupulous adventuress and as an adventuress and treasure. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adventuress" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adventuress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In 1913, he sailed aboard the schooner Adventuress with owner John Borden to the Arctic. (15 words)
Spade continues business as usual, although his secretary, Effie Perine, who by intuition had assured him that Miss Wonderly (O'Shaughnessy) was honest and trustworthy, is disappointed to learn that she was an unscrupulous adventuress. (35 words)
His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character. (36 words)
In the original and Legends continuities, she is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas: her journey back to civilisation against the odds help begin her journey towards her adult life as an adventuress and treasure hunter. (38 words)
His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character. (36 words)
Spade continues business as usual, although his secretary, Effie Perine, who by intuition had assured him that Miss Wonderly (O'Shaughnessy) was honest and trustworthy, is disappointed to learn that she was an unscrupulous adventuress. (35 words)
Example sentences (4)
His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character.
In 1913, he sailed aboard the schooner Adventuress with owner John Borden to the Arctic.
In the original and Legends continuities, she is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas: her journey back to civilisation against the odds help begin her journey towards her adult life as an adventuress and treasure hunter.
Spade continues business as usual, although his secretary, Effie Perine, who by intuition had assured him that Miss Wonderly (O'Shaughnessy) was honest and trustworthy, is disappointed to learn that she was an unscrupulous adventuress.