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, borrowed 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; 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.
- Macaulay
- He loved excitement and adventure.
- Macaulay
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event
- A life full of adventures.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- 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, Spyplane (review, in Crash, issue 4, May 1984)
- The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
- 1988, Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves (review, in Your Sinclair, issue 29, May 1988)
- To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger […]
- 1992, Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games (in Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
- 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.
- 1984, Spyplane (review, in Crash, issue 4, May 1984)
- (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap
- (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
- (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
- Berners
- He was in great adventure of his life.
- Berners
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
encountering of risks
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remarkable occurrence
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mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
adventure game
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that which happens without design
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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)
- (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- Bible, Acts xix. 31
- He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
- Bible, Acts xix. 31
- (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- Bunyan
- Yet they adventured to go back.
- J. Taylor
- Discriminations might be adventured.
- Bunyan
- (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
- 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books, volume 1, Oxford: 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
Translations
to risk
to run the risk of
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References
- adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Latin
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin adventūrum.
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