fortune hunter
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who pursues wealth without earning it through labor, typically by engaging in ventures that are opportunistic, ethically dubious, or socially exploitative, such as entering into marriage for financial gain.
Example Sentences
- "“You are very charming, sir, so charming, in fact, that you made me forget for a time that you are a fortune hunter. You slipped up only once just now, but that was enough. You don’t want me or my help, only my money.”"
- "101-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) returns to the scene of waterlogged hubris, where fortune hunter Lovett (Bill Paxton) is diving for diamonds."
- "[T]he swashbuckling modern-day fortune hunter Nathan Drake treks from Istanbul to Borneo to the highest peaks of the Himalayas in search of the lost treasures of the mystical Shambhala."