adventure

Forms

1.A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- He is fond of adventure.
2.A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- He is fond of adventure.
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.
- He loved excitement and adventure.
4.A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- He is fond of adventure.

1.To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
- The album sees the band adventuring into new territories.
- In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.
- He gave Kitty advice about everything; he tramped the hills with the dogs, carrying a shot-gun that he never used; and he adventured upon a recently recommended diet of buttermilk and hickory-nuts.
2.To dare to say or utter.
- ‘Did he tell you about us?’ she adventured, cautiously.
3.To risk or hazard; jeopard.
- The first object was to bring within forseeable and moderate limits the risks to be undertaken by the shipowner when he adventured his ship on a commercial enterprise.
- Expanded to embrace all MPs who had adventured money, it had operated in cojunction with a London-based adventurers’ committee in what was intended as, in effect, a private enterprise expedition.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti

Proto-Italic *gʷəniō

Latin veniō

Latin adveniō

Latin adventūrus

Vulgar Latin *adventūra

Old French aventurebor.