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ad⋅ven⋅ture

[ad-ven-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
–noun
1. an exciting or very unusual experience.
2. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit of adventure.
3. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.
4. a commercial or financial speculation of any kind; venture.
5. Obsolete.
a. peril; danger; risk.
b. chance; fortune; luck.
–verb (used with object)
6. to risk or hazard.
7. to take the chance of; dare.
8. to venture to say or utter: to adventure an opinion.
–verb (used without object)
9. to take the risk involved.
10. to venture; hazard.

Origin:
1200–50; ME aventure < AF, OF < VL *adventūra what must happen, fem. (orig. neut. pl.) of L adventūrus fut. participle of advenīre to arrive; ad- ad- r. a- a- 5 . See advent, -ure


ad⋅ven⋅ture⋅ful, adjective
ad·ven·ture   (ād-věn'chər)   
n.  
    1. An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
    2. An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
  1. An unusual or exciting experience: an adventure in dining.
  2. Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences: the love of adventure.
  3. A financial speculation or business venture.
v.   ad·ven·tured, ad·ven·tur·ing, ad·ven·tures

v.   tr.
  1. To venture upon; undertake or try.
  2. To expose to danger or risk; hazard.
v.   intr.
  1. To take a risk; dare.
  2. To proceed despite risks.

[Middle English aventure, from Old French, from Latin adventūrus, future participle of advenīre, to arrive; see advent.]

Adventure

Ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [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.

Adventure

Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured; p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]

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.

Adventure

Ad*ven"ture\, v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk.

I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak.
Language Translation for : adventure
Spanish: aventura,
German: das Abenteuer,
Japanese: 冒険

adventure 
c.1230, auenture "chance, fortune, luck," from O.Fr. auenture, from L. aventura (res) "(a thing) about to happen," from future participle of advenire "to come about," from ad- "to" + venire "to come" (see venue). Original meaning was "to arrive," in Latin, but in M.E. it took a turn through "risk/danger" (a trial of one's chances), and "perilous undertaking" (c.1314), and thence to "a novel or exciting incident" (1570). The -d- was restored 15c.-16c. Venture (q.v.) is a 15c. variant.
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