venture
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Shortening of adventure.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
venture (plural ventures)
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island. Chapter 4.
- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture.
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island. Chapter 4.
[edit] Translations
A risky or daring undertaking or journey
[edit] Verb
venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
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- For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
[edit] Derived terms
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[edit] Translations
to undertake a risky journey
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to risk
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success
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[edit] External links
- venture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- venture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
venture f.
- feminine plural form of venturo
[edit] Noun
venture f.
- Plural form of ventura.
[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
ventūre
- vocative masculine singular of ventūrus
