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ADVENTURESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adventuress mean?
• ADVENTURESS (noun)
The noun ADVENTURESS has 1 sense:
1. a woman adventurer
Familiarity information: ADVENTURESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman adventurer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("adventuress" is a kind of...):
adventurer; venturer (a person who enjoys taking risks)
Context examples
The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known adventuress, Irene Adler.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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