venture

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Shortening of adventure.

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[edit] Noun

venture (plural ventures)

  1. 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.

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venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)

  1. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on

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venture f.

  1. feminine plural form of venturo

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venture f.

  1. Plural form of ventura.

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ventūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of ventūrus
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