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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPEC'ULATOR, n.
1. One who speculates or forms theories.
2. An observer; a contemplator.
3. A spy; a watcher.
4. In commerce, one who buys goods, land or other thing, with the expectation of a rise of price, and of deriving profit from such advance.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
2: someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains [syn: speculator, plunger]

Merriam Webster's

noun see speculate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Speculator Spec"u*la`tor, n. [L., a spy, explorer, investigator: cf. F. sp['e]culateur.] 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.) One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(speculators) A speculator is a person who speculates financially. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Theorizer, speculatist, theorist.

Moby Thesaurus

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