venturer

Other forms of venturer

plural

venturers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about venturer

What does venturer mean?

venturer means "a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in venturer?

venturer has 3 syllables: ven-tu-rer. The stress falls on "ven".

What is another word for venturer?

Close synonyms include merchant-venturer, adventurer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is venturer a common word?

venturer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.