About The Word Adventure
![Bay Area Crosswords Bay Area Crosswords](/images/bayareacrosswords.jpg)
Learn about the word Adventure to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Adventure definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Adventure
![Adventure Meaning & Definition Adventure Meaning & Definition](/images/wordmeaningdefinition.jpg)
Adventure Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Adventure?
[n] a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
[v] take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [v] put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this" Synonyms | Synonyms for Adventure: chance | dangerous undertaking | escapade | gamble | hazard | jeopardize | risk | risky venture | run a risk | stake | take a chance | take chances | venture Related Terms | Find terms related to Adventure: accomplished fact | accomplishment | achievement | act | acta | action | adventures | affair | annals | aristeia | autobiography | bet | biographical sketch | biography | blow | bold stroke | case history | casualty | chance | chance hit | chronicle | chronicles | chronology | circumstance | Clio | confessions | contingency | contingent | coup | curriculum vitae | danger | dare | dealings | deed | diary | doing | doings | effort | emprise | endanger | endeavor | enterprise | episode | escapade | event | expedition | experience | experiences | exploit | exploration | fact | fait accompli | feat | fluke | fortuity | fortunes | freak accident | gamble | gest | go | hagiography | hagiology | hand | handiwork | hap | happening | happenstance | hazard | heroic act | historiography | history | imperil | incident | jeopardize | job | journal | legend | life | life and letters | life story | long odds | long shot | lucky shot | maneuver | martyrology | matter of fact | measure | memoir | memoirs | memorabilia | memorial | memorials | mission | move | necrology | obituary | occasion | occurrence | operation | overt act | particular | passage | performance | peril | phenomenon | photobiography | pilgrimage | proceeding | production | profile | punt | quest | reality | record | res gestae | resume | risk | speculation | stake | step | story | stroke | stunt | theory of history | thing | thing done | threaten | tour de force | transaction | turn | turn of events | undertaking | venture | wager | waver | work | works See Also | assay | attempt | essay | labor | lay on the line | luck it | luck through | project | put on the line | seek | task | try | undertaking Adventure In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. \Ad*ven"ture\, v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk. I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wassermann ‐ a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is…
- Frontal bone ‐ the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium:…
- Surrendered ‐ given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished…
- Family uranoscopidae ‐ stargazers
- Pascal's law of fluid pressures ‐ pressure applied anywhere to a body of fluid causes a force to…
- Criollo ‐ cocoa of superior quality [n] a Spanish American of pure European…
- Ski jump ‐ a steep downward ramp from which skiers jump [v]…
- Kenyan monetary unit ‐ monetary…
- Provincialism ‐ a partiality for some particular place [n] a lack of…
- Meliorative ‐ tending to…