adventure
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).
[edit] Noun
adventure (plural adventures)
- That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
- 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.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
[edit] Antonyms
- (remarkable occurrence): boredom
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[edit] Translations
that which happens without design
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encountering of risks
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remarkable occurrence
mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.
[edit] Verb
adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)
- (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
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[edit] Translations
to risk
to run the risk of
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[edit] References
- adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
adventūre
- vocative masculine singular of adventūrus
[edit] Middle French
[edit] Etymology
Old French avanture, with the addition of an unetymological d.
[edit] Noun
adventure f. (plural adventures)
