adventure

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
• A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
• A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
• A text adventure or an adventure game.
• That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
• Chance of danger or loss.
• Risk; danger; peril.

Verb

• To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
• To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
• To try the chance; to take the risk.

Related

Similar words

• hazard

Origin

• From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum, which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).
• From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.