adventure
Meanings
- A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- 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.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- A text adventure or an adventure game.
- That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- Chance of danger or loss.
- Risk; danger; peril.
- To risk oneself.
- To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
- To try the chance; to take the risk.
- To dare to say or utter.
- To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- To risk or hazard; jeopard.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Vulgar Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷənjō Vulgar Latin veniō Vulgar Latin adveniō Vulgar Latin adventūrus Vulgar Latin *adventūra Old French aventurebor. Middle English aventure English adventure From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). By surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.