Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
- n. An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
- n. An unusual or exciting experience: an adventure in dining.
- n. Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences: the love of adventure.
- n. A financial speculation or business venture.
- v. To venture upon; undertake or try.
- v. To expose to danger or risk; hazard.
- v. To take a risk; dare.
- v. To proceed despite risks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 1. That which comes or happens to one; hap; chance; fortune; luck.
- n. A hazardous enterprise; an undertaking of uncertain issue, or participation in such an undertaking.
- n. A remarkable occurrence in one's personal history; a noteworthy event or experience in one's life.
- n. A speculation of any kind, commercial, financial, or mining; a venture; specifically, a speculation in goods sent abroad.
- n. Peril; danger.
- n. Adventurous activity; participation in exciting or hazardous undertakings or enterprises: as, a spirit of adventure.
- To risk or hazard; put in the power of unforeseen events: as, to adventure one's life.
- To venture on; take the chance of; run the risk of doing or suffering.
- To take the risk involved in doing anything; proceed at a venture.
Wiktionary
- n. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
- n. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
- n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
- n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- n. video games A text adventure or an adventure game.
- v. transitive To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- v. transitive To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- v. intransitive To try the chance; to take the risk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
- n. obsolete Risk; danger; peril.
- n. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
- n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident.
- n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- v. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
- v. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- v. To try the chance; to take the risk.
WordNet 3.0
- v. put at risk
- n. a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- v. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
Etymologies
- From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum ("to arrive"), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English aventure, from Old French, from Latin adventūrus, future participle of advenīre, to arrive; see advent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Rabbi Ben Ezra waited for death to open the gate to it, but to her it seemed that she was in the midst of it now, that 'adventure brave and new' _in which death itself was also to be an adventure_ ....”
“Life is an adventure: The word adventure comes from the Latin word ad-venire.”
“I make the mistake of using the word adventure and he says: "You can use this word in my presence only in quotes.”
“Its literature is comparatively scant, but Doug Ammons has already crafted a classic meditation on what he calls "adventure sports," one that easily transcends the river genre.”
““The mission of our adventure is about taking almost 50 women across the finish line together,” said founder Sunny Becks-Crumpton.”
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““The mission of our adventure is about taking almost 50 women across the finish line together,” said Sunny Becks-Crumpton, founder of Hooping for Hope, which provides hoop fitness classes to breast cancer survivors free of charge.”
“I can't even decide which step of this adventure is the most aggravating.”
“The only clear winner in the adventure is the state.”
Mueller on Iraq, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Still, the best part of this adventure is the diversion and camaraderie of adventurous friends.”
“The word adventure is really a bad pick, would not you say?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adventure’.
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Very Silly Words
A list of very silly sounding words, as well as words that are fun to say
badot, gardyloo, dingbat, gaffer, kine, haberdashery, forsooth, whey-faced, hoddypeak, brouhaha, widdershins, decemnovenarianize and 115 more...
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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October 2011
serendipity, grateful, irritable, punchy, twitchy, reverence, solitude, levity, nubble, sojourn, Eden, quesadilla and 19 more...
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slcatlett's list
Favorite Words
joy, treasure, adventure, happy, noontide, playing footsie, creation, toasty, greetings, surprise, connectivity, imagination and 8 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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NTB
chaos, Sagittarius, aether, magic, jester, fool, random, delirium, fire, life, cosmic, riddle and 120 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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word list
abandon, ache, augment, avow, atone, approbate, apprehend, abut, apostatize, abase, abash, abate and 155 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Lizbt's Words
monkey, kitten, puppy, computer, screen, dalek, tardis, cute, dark, cotton, chocolate, sunshine and 125 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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Diversified Obsessions
calendars, running, music, men, friends, motherhood, art, food, solitude, connection, drama, humor and 117 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for adventure.

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