adventure

Speech parts

1. adventure - Noun

2. adventure - Verb

Meaning

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Risk; danger; peril.

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.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

venture enterprise hazard undertaking escapade risky venture event experience risk episode chance incident journey affair voyage
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

attempt project risk labor task try

Hyponyms

go for broke luck it luck through

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

adventured adventuring

Anagrams

unaverted

Examples

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham

Close letter words and terms

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