speculator

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈspɛkjʊˌleɪtə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
    — a bold and paradoxical speculator
  2. One who forms theories; a theorist.
    — […] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.
  3. One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
    — He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.
  4. Synonym of field goal.

词形变化

speculators plural

词汇关系

衍生词
specullector
相关词
speculate speculation speculative speculatrix entrepreneur gambler punter

词源

From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.
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