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Adventure   /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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"Adventure" Quotes from Famous Books



... wilderness, the terraced garden; when the screech-owl shrieked from the ivy which clustered up one side of the walls, and "rats and mice, and such small deer," were playing their pranks behind the wainscot, it would have formed as pretty a locality for a supernatural adventure, as ever decayed hunting lodge in the recesses of the Hartz, or ruined fortress on the castled Rhine. Nothing was wanting but the ghost, and a ghost of any taste would have been proud of ...
— Country Lodgings • Mary Russell Mitford
... you regard as an adventure," she smiled. "I should think the episode of the cab, with what followed at your apartment, was very ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... sight of Las Palomas near evening, my horse turned his head and nickered, and in a few minutes Uncle Lance and June Deweese galloped up and overtook me. I had figured out several very plausible versions of my adventure, but this sudden meeting threw me off my guard—and Lance Lovelace was a hard man to tell an undetected, white-faced lie. I put on a bold front, but his salutation penetrated it ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... only. partly dressed in his room at the barracks. His friend Johnstone was back in Ennis, and there was also a Cornet with the troop. He had no excuse whatever on the score of military duty for remaining at home on that day. But he sat idling his time, thinking of things. All the charm of the adventure was gone. He was sick of the canoe and of Barney Morony. He did not care a straw for the seals or wild gulls. The moaning of the ocean beneath the cliff was no longer pleasurable to him,—and as to the moaning at their summit, to tell the ...
— An Eye for an Eye • Anthony Trollope
... said he when relating to me this adventure, "do not cultivate a habit of affability towards widows of the lower middle classes. There was once ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke


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