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Adventure
Definitions
- 1 A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. uncountable
"his sense of adventure"
- 2 a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) wordnet
- 3 A remarkable occurrence; a striking event. countable, uncountable
"A life full of adventures."
- 4 A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks. countable, uncountable
"He loved excitement and adventure."
- 5 A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A text adventure or an adventure game. countable, uncountable
"The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure."
- 7 That which happens by chance; hazard; hap. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 8 Chance of danger or loss. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 9 Risk; danger; peril. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"He was in great adventure of his life."
- 1 To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture. archaic, transitive
"So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death."
- 2 take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome wordnet
- 3 To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. archaic, transitive
"Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.."
- 4 put at risk wordnet
- 5 To try the chance; to take the risk. archaic, intransitive
"The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this."
Etymology
From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
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