adventurers

noun

plural of adventurer
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as in snobs

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as in explorers

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as in knaves

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  1. snobs
  2. explorers
  3. knaves
  4. travelers
  5. rogues
  6. pioneers
  7. rascals
  8. charlatans
Noun
  • The film captures the friction between tennis snobs and the more democratic pickleballers while examining father-son relationships and intergenerational friendships.
    — Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Pinot Noir and Riesling snobs may prefer to hop across the lake to von Mandl’s winery that concentrates solelyon those grapes—Martin’s Lane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 July 2026
Definition of snobs
Noun
  • The name began appearing on European explorers' maps in the 1660s.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • At the center was Tatunca Nara, who claimed to be its descendant and guide, but later became linked to the disappearance and deaths of several explorers.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of explorers
Noun
  • The knights who always told the truth and the knaves who always lied.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of knaves
Noun
  • That follows a growing trend, as airlines have been adding more capacity in the shoulder seasons and even in the off-peak winter period as travelers opt to fly in the fall and other cooler, cheaper times of the year.
    — Michele Luhn, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
  • San Juan is a major tourist spot for the island, with its nearby airport and cruise docks, but travelers might not feel the impact of the crisis.
    — Josh Rivera, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of travelers
Noun
  • Actual rogues tend to skulk in corners and nick your smartphone.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But the word thug as a term for rogues and thieves lived on in English.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of rogues
Noun
  • Digital dyeing is transforming how fashion gets its color, and one of the technology’s pioneers is now undergoing a transformation of its own.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • These platforms could simultaneously help the AI pioneers and power users in the operating forces learn and evolve more quickly.
    — Emelia S. Probasco, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of pioneers
Noun
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Definition of rascals
Noun
  • Ours is not a society that loathes charlatans; look who’s running things.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026
  • In place of San Francisco’s decaying arts bohemia of poseurs and charlatans, they can be said to be creating an alternate bohemia.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of charlatans
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