treasure hunters
Quest for riches
Treasure hunters are people who search for valuable objects—sunken ships, buried gold, lost artifacts.
The term covers both professionals using sophisticated equipment and hobbyists with metal detectors on beaches.
Figuratively, anyone seeking hidden value: antique dealers are treasure hunters at heart.
The singular form usually appears with an article: a treasure hunter.
- gold coinsCurrency struck from precious yellow metal
- gemstonesPolished ornamental minerals
- shipwrecksDestroyed vessels underwater
- Spanish galleonArmed colonial cargo vessel
- Davy Jones' lockerOcean floor for shipwrecks
museum collections · caves · exploration · thrill-seeking · fortune seeker · metal detector · doubloons · adventure · folklore · magnetometer · ancient artifacts · pirate tales · abandoned mines · jungles · uncharted territory · profit · geocaching · jewels
- adventureadventure, quest, quests, exploration, explorers
- Adventurersexplorers, adventurers, pioneers, trailblazers, pathfinders
- seekersseekers, seeker, searcher, fortune seekers, fortune-seekers
- prospectorsprospectors, miners, panners, gold diggers, forty-niners
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- hero storiesmythology, legends, warrior tales, Arthurian legend, Greek myths
treasure huntersarchaeologists
Scientists studying past cultures
preservationists · museum curators · conservation officers · historians · archivists
treasure huntershoarders
Excessive keepers of things
guardians · keepers · protectors · concealers