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/ædvˈɛntʃər/ /ədvˈɛntʃər/ Listen

noun

Adventure n.

1.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. "Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually."

2.

Risk; danger; peril. (Obs.) "He was in great adventure of his life."

3.

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. "He loved excitement and adventure."

4.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

5.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

Synonyms: Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.

verb

Adventure v. t. (past & past part. adventured; pres. part. adventuring)

1.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. "He would not adventure himself into the theater."

2.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. "Yet they adventured to go back." "Discriminations might be adventured."

Adventure v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk. "I would adventure for such merchandise."

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Etymology of 'Adventure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adventure" Quotes from Famous Books

... before me. Yet one consolation remained with me: the incident would be of value to me in the autobiography upon which I was then engaged. I can distinctly recollect lying on my back among decaying leaves and broken glass, framing my account. "On this day a strange adventure befell me. Walking in the garden, all unheeding, I suddenly"—I did not want to add the truth—"tumbled into a dust-hole, six feet square, that any one but a moon calf might have seen." I puzzled to evolve ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... yet but little trod. Great stretches of virgin forest still remain within whose dim recesses nothing is changed since the days the Indians dwelt in them. The mystery and the adventure are not sped, the grandeur and the companionship still pulse among the glades, the "call of the wild" is an unceasing cry, and to that ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... the meal; and when they were seated round the table, after it had been disposed of, Mr. Pickwick, to the intense horror and indignation of his followers, related the adventure he had undergone, and the success which had attended the base artifices of the diabolical Jingle. 'And the attack of rheumatism which I caught in that garden,' said Mr. Pickwick, in conclusion, 'renders ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... defeats. It may be doubted whether any Roman statesman of the earlier period, or of the present, can be compared in point of versatile talent to Sertorius. After Sulla's generals had compelled him to quit Spain,(15) he had led a restless life of adventure along the Spanish and African coasts, sometimes in league, sometimes at war, with the Cilician pirates who haunted these seas, and with the chieftains of the roving tribes of Libya. The victorious Roman restoration had pursued him even thither: when he was besieging ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... that he had seen in the deadhouse, and by the associations which that sight had recalled, Amelius was ready for any adventure which might relieve his mind. Even the prospect of a visit to a thieves' lodging house was more welcome to him than the prospect of going home alone. "If there's no serious objection to it," he said, "I own I should like to see ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

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