adventure

English Online Dictionary. What means adventure‎? What does adventure mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/, /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
• Hyphenation: ad‧ven‧ture

Etymology 1

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).

Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.

Noun

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

   Antonym: abstention

2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

3. 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.
4. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
5. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

   Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck

7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.

   Synonym: hazard

8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

   Synonyms: jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

Related terms

• advent
• advene

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.

Verb

adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)

1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “adventure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• aventured, unaverted

Latin

Participle

adventūre

1. vocative masculine singular of adventūrus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• aventure

Etymology

From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin adventūrum.

Noun

adventure f (plural adventures)

1. adventure
2. fortune