adventure
noun
- exciting or unusual experience
- either a collection of material for or a story in a role-playing game
verb
- to proceed despite risk
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ / /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ / /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
noun
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.
- A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
“his sense of adventure”
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
“a life full of adventures”
- 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.
“He loved excitement and adventure.”
- 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.
“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[...]”
- That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- Chance of danger or loss.
- Risk; danger; peril.
“He was in great adventure of his life.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English aventuren, auntren, from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
- To risk oneself.
“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.”
- To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
“[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.”
- To try the chance; to take the risk.
“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.”
- To dare to say or utter.
“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.”
- To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
“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.”
- To risk or hazard; jeopard.
“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.”