speculator, plunger
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
speculator
(noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
speculator (plural speculators)
One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
One who forms theories; a theorist.
(business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
(rugby) synonym of field goal
• copulaters, outparcels, outplacers, peculators
Source: Wiktionary
Spec"u*la`tor, n. Etym: [L., a spy, explorer, investigator: cf. F. spéculateur.]
Definition: One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. (b) One who forms theories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay. (c) (Com.)
Definition: One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
