adventure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Vulgar Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti
Proto-Italic *gʷənjō
Vulgar Latin veniō
Vulgar Latin adveniō
Vulgar Latin adventūrus
Vulgar Latin *adventūra
Old French aventurebor.
Middle English aventure
English adventure
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). By surface analysis, advent + -ure.
Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
Inflected forms:
form: adventures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aventure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: adventures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adventuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: adventurest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: adventuredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: adventures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adventureth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: adventure
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: adventuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adventured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aventure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: his sense of adventure
gloss: A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a life full of adventures
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He loved excitement and adventure.
gloss: A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A text adventure or an adventure game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]
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.
gloss: That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Chance of danger or loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Risk; danger; peril.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: He was in great adventure of his life.
gloss: To risk oneself.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
reflexive
examples: O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]
And certaine of the chiefe of Aſia, which were his friends, ſent vnto him, deſiring him that he would not aduenture himſelfe into the Theatre.
And they only deſired a Permiſſion from the Queen. And the Queen had much ado to detain them from adventuring themſelves thither: […]
“Are you Christians?” shouted he, before he would adventure himself near the ship.
We adventured ourselves into the unknown recesses of the house, and sat gingerly on greasy horsehair-seated chairs, in the parlour, […]
Teachers whose powers of mathematical and scientific thought are undeveloped may feel encouraged by these records to adventure themselves into the child’s wonderful world of discovery.
gloss: To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]
Why, we wil ſet forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleaſure to faile; and then wil they aduenture vpõ the exploit themſelues, which they ſhal haue no ſooner atchieued but weele ſet vpon them.
It was plainly told thee what the iſſue of thy rejecting Chriſt would be, and yet after ſufficient warning, thou adventuredſt upon it; […]
By this Time the Spider was adventured out when beholding the Chaſms, and Ruins, and Dilapidations of his Fortreſs, he was very near at his Wit’s end, he ſtormed and ſwore like a Mad-man, and ſwelled till he was ready to burſt.
Now Harold felt himself at length alone, / And bade to Christian tongues a long adieu; / Now he adventur’d on a shore unknown, / Which all admire, but many dread to view: […]
He gave Kitty advice about everything; he tramped the hills with the dogs, carrying a shot-gun that he never used; and he adventured upon a recently recommended diet of buttermilk and hickory-nuts.
In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.
The album sees the band adventuring into new territories.
gloss: To try the chance; to take the risk.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
with-infinitive
examples: What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.
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.
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.
These impure pictures are from the same illustrious and impious hands that adventured to call before us the august forms of Apostles and Saints, the Blessed Mother of the Redeemer, and her Son, at his death, and in his glory, and even the awfulness of Him to whom the martyrs, dead a thousand years ago, have not yet dared to raise their eyes.
[John] Smith alone, having saved, by care in picory, some moneys, and finding trade slackening, adventured to regain a more reputable way of living.
gloss: To dare to say or utter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!
‘Did he tell you about us?’ she adventured, cautiously.
[William] Wake’s immense correspondence on behalf of Christian unity has been analysed fully, if not definitively, by Norman Sykes, and related to the situations in France, Switzerland, and Germany, but we may adventure a comment upon it without recapitulating an intricate, and like ecumenical narratives generally, often tedious, story.
gloss: To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]
Discriminations might be adventured.
The epic is one that could be adventured nowhere else; only this region affords the conditions.
In that time of respite and hope, when because of the deeds of the Mormegil the power of Morgoth was stemmed west of Sirion, Morwen fled at last from Dor-lómin with Nienor her daughter, and adventured the long journey to Thingol’s halls.
gloss: To risk or hazard; jeopard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?
So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death.
For the love of one thou adventuredst thy life and the very existence of thy house and name.
Understand, O my son, that thou adventurest thy life and this is all I can do for thee, and—the peace!
With lover’s gaze / We watched while thou adventuredst thy soul / Unto the utmost verge of what man may / To follow her fair feet.
The first object was to bring within forseeable and moderate limits the risks to be undertaken by the shipowner when he adventured his ship on a commercial enterprise.
Expanded to embrace all MPs who had adventured money, it had operated in cojunction with a London-based adventurers’ committee in what was intended as, in effect, a private enterprise expedition.
Related words: advene
advent
adventurous
adventurously
adventurousness
Derived words: 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
peradventure
Sburbventure
unadventured
unadventuring
adventurer
adventuress
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: рискувам
roman: riskuvam
lang: Dutch
word: wagen
lang: Dutch
word: riskeren
lang: Finnish
word: ottaa riski
lang: Finnish
word: riskeerata
lang: Malayalam
word: സാഹസപ്പെടുക
roman: sāhasappeṭuka
lang: Russian
word: рискова́ть
roman: riskovátʹ
lang: Russian
word: рискну́ть
roman: risknútʹ
lang: Spanish
word: aventura