adventure
Plural: adventures
Noun
- a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- 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.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- A text adventure or an adventure game.
- That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- Chance of danger or loss.
- Risk; danger; peril.
Verb
- take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- put at risk
- To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- To try the chance; to take the risk.
Examples
- A life full of adventures.
- his sense of adventure
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
chance, dangerous undertaking, escapade, gamble, hazard, jeopardize, risk, risky venture, run a risk, stake, take a chance, take chances, venture, accident, adventure, casualty, chance-medley, danger, distress, fortune, hap, harm's way, jeopardy, joss, luck, menace, peril, plight, serendipity, threat, weird
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
adventure: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordadventure: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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