Adventure
[əd'ventʃə] or [əd'vɛntʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
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Definition
(n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
(n.) Risk; danger; peril.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
(n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
(n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.[2]. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.[3]. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.[4]. (Com.) Speculation.
v. a. Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.
v. n. Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Incident, crisis, chance, hazard, occurrence, event, enterprise, casualty,undertaking, experiment, venture, trial, romance
ANT:Matter-of-fact, matter-of-course
Checked by Basil
Definition
n. a risk or chance: a remarkable incident: an enterprise: trial of the issue: risk: a commercial speculation: the spirit of enterprise.—v.i. to attempt or dare.—v.t. to risk or hazard: (refl.) to venture.—v.i. to risk one's self (with on into upon): to dare go so far as to.—n. Advent′urer one who engages in hazardous enterprises: a soldier of fortune or speculator: one who pushes his fortune by equivocal means as false pretences &c.:—fem. Advent′uress.—adjs. Advent′urous Advent′uresome enterprising: ready to incur risk.—adv. Advent′urously.—n. Advent′urousness.
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Examples
- He declared himself entirely at her disposal: the adventure struck him as diverting. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This did not make the night's adventure run any less hotly in Mr Dorrit's mind, either when he sat down by his fire again, or when he went to bed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At last, a carpenter in the city, Peter Van der Mey by name, undertook the adventure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I wish you were all going, but as you can't, I shall keep my adventures to tell you when I come back. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No more adventures, I suppose, this evening? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- What were the adventures of Mr. Osborne and Miss Amelia? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We were all virtuous girls when Amy, one fine afternoon, left her father's house and sallied forth, like Don Quixote, in quest of adventures. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Darwin's account of his adventures and manifold observations is so informal, so rich in detail, as not to admit of summary. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Meantime you can go to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, where you will, and enjoy pictures, music, scenery, and adventures to your heart's content. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Hitherto their overflow of population had gone adventuring southward into the disorders of divided China as water goes into a sponge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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