adventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: adventures
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.
Senses: examples: text: his sense of adventure
antonyms: abstention
glosses: A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
examples: text: A life full of adventures.
glosses: A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
examples: text: He loved excitement and adventure.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, 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:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
examples: text: The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
ref: 1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash, number 4, (review):
text: To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]
ref: 1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves [review]”, in Your Sinclair, number 29, archived from the original on 26 May 2013:
text: 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.
ref: 1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128:
topics: video-games
glosses: A text adventure or an adventure game.
synonyms: word: fortune
word: hazard
word: luck
word: adventure
word: accident
word: casualty
word: chance
word: chance-medley
word: fortune
word: hap
word: hazard
word: joss
word: luck
word: serendipity
word: weird
glosses: That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
synonyms: hazard
glosses: Chance of danger or loss.
examples: text: He was in great adventure of his life.
ref: 1895, Lord Berners, transl., The Chronicles of Froissart:
synonyms: word: jeopardy
word: adventure
word: danger
word: distress
word: harm's way
word: peril
word: plight
word: jeopardy
word: risk
word: threat
word: menace
word: hazard
glosses: Risk; danger; peril.
Derived terms: action adventure
adventurecation
adventuredom
adventure education
adventureful
adventureless
adventurement
adventure playground
adventure sport
adventure therapy
adventure tourism
adventure travel
adventurish
adventurism
adventurist
adventuristic
adventurize
arcade adventure
at adventure
at all adventures
bill of adventure
choose your own adventure
choose-your-own-adventure
coadventure
ecoadventure
fanventure
gross adventure
high adventure
microadventure
misadventure
nonadventure
Sburbventure
unadventured
unadventuring
Related terms: advent
advene