adventure

UK /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ US /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

his sense of adventure

2

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

a life full of adventures

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.

5

A text adventure or an adventure game.

The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.

To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]

verb

1

To risk oneself.

O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]

And certaine of the chiefe of Aſia, which were his friends, ſent vnto him, deſiring him that he would not aduenture himſelfe into the Theatre.

2

To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.

[A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]

Why, we wil ſet forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleaſure to faile; and then wil they aduenture vpõ the exploit themſelues, which they ſhal haue no ſooner atchieued but weele ſet vpon them.

3

To try the chance; to take the risk.

What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.

Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.

4

To dare to say or utter.

But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!

‘Did he tell you about us?’ she adventured, cautiously.

5

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

Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]

Discriminations might be adventured.

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