 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adventure
noun: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
[syn: {escapade}, {risky venture}, {dangerous undertaking}]
verb
1: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you
buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: {gamble}, {chance},
{risk}, {hazard}, {take chances}, {run a risk}, {take a
chance}]
2: put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"
[syn: {venture}, {hazard}, {stake}, {jeopardize}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Adventured}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Adventuring}.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F.
aventurer, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, noun]
1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
--Acts xix.
31.
2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back. --Bunyan,
Discriminations might be adventured. --J. Taylor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), noun [OE. aventure, aunter,
anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire,
adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the
sense of ''to happen, befall.'' See Advene.]
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. --Milton.
2. Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]
He was in great adventure of his life. --Berners.
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. --Macaulay.
4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring
incident; as, the adventures of one's life. --Bacon.
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.
Syn: Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, verb (used without an object)
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "adventure":
Clio, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta,
action, adventures, affair, annals, aristeia, autobiography, bet,
biographical sketch, biography, blow, bold stroke, case history,
casualty, chance, chance hit, chronicle, chronicles, chronology,
circumstance, confessions, contingency, contingent, coup,
curriculum vitae, danger, dare, dealings, deed, diary, doing,
doings, effort, emprise, endanger, endeavor, enterprise, episode,
escapade, event, expedition, experience, experiences, exploit,
exploration, fact, fait accompli, feat, fluke, fortuity, fortunes,
freak accident, gamble, gest, go, hagiography, hagiology, hand,
handiwork, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, heroic act,
historiography, history, imperil, incident, jeopardize, job,
journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, long odds,
long shot, lucky shot, maneuver, martyrology, matter of fact,
measure, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials,
mission, move, necrology, obituary, occasion, occurrence,
operation, overt act, particular, passage, performance, peril,
phenomenon, photobiography, pilgrimage, proceeding, production,
profile, punt, quest, reality, record, res gestae, resume, risk,
speculation, stake, step, story, stroke, stunt, theory of history,
thing, thing done, threaten, tour de force, transaction, turn,
turn of events, undertaking, venture, wager, waver, work, works
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