adventure
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/, /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/
- Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧ture
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Etymology 1
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).
Noun
adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)
- The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- He loved excitement and adventure.
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- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- A life full of adventures.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- his sense of adventure
- (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
- 1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash, number 4, (review):
- The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
- 1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves [review]”, in Your Sinclair, number 29, archived from the original on 26 May 2013:
- To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]
- 1992 October, Horsfield, Larry, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128:
- Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
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- (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
- (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
- He was in great adventure of his life.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
Synonyms
- (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
- (chance of danger or loss): hazard
- (risk): jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger
Antonyms
(desire for new and exciting things): abstention
Derived terms
- action adventure
- adventure education
- adventure playground
- adventure therapy
- at adventure
- at all adventures
- bill of adventure
- choose your own adventure
- choose-your-own-adventure
- gross adventure
- high adventure
Related terms
- advent
- advene
Translations
encountering of risks
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remarkable occurrence
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mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
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adventure game
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that which happens without design
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risk; danger; peril
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Etymology 2
From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
Verb
adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)
- (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 19:31:
- And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
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- (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], OCLC 228725984; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, OCLC 5190338, page 150:
- 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..
- c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
- Discriminations might be adventured.
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- (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
- 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Gutch, OCLC 642441055, page 661:
- 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.
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Derived terms
- adventurer
- adventuresome
- adventuress
- adventurous
- adventurously
- adventurousness
Translations
to risk
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to run the risk of
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Further reading
- adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- aventured, unaverted
Latin
Participle
adventūre
- vocative masculine singular of adventūrus
Middle French
Alternative forms
- aventure
Etymology
From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin adventūrum.
Noun
adventure f (plural adventures)
- adventure
- fortune