Adventure

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
  • noun. An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
  • noun. An unusual or exciting experience.
  • noun. Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences.
  • noun. A financial speculation or business venture.
  • intransitive verb. To venture upon; undertake or try.
  • intransitive verb. To expose to danger or risk.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed despite risks.
  • intransitive verb. To take a risk; dare.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 1. That which comes or happens to one; hap; chance; fortune; luck.
  • noun. A hazardous enterprise; an undertaking of uncertain issue, or participation in such an undertaking.
  • noun. A remarkable occurrence in one's personal history; a noteworthy event or experience in one's life.
  • noun. A speculation of any kind, commercial, financial, or mining; a venture; specifically, a speculation in goods sent abroad.
  • noun. Peril; danger.
  • noun. Adventurous activity; participation in exciting or hazardous undertakings or enterprises: as, a spirit of adventure.
  • To risk or hazard; put in the power of unforeseen events: as, to adventure one's life.
  • To venture on; take the chance of; run the risk of doing or suffering.
  • To take the risk involved in doing anything; proceed at a venture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To try the chance; to take the risk.
  • transitive verb. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
  • transitive verb. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • noun. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  • noun. Risk; danger; peril.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident.
  • noun. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • noun. a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
  • noun. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • noun. A text adventure or an adventure game.
  • verb. To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  • verb. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • verb. To try the chance; to take the risk.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put at risk
  • noun. a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
  • verb. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
  • Word Usage
    "Rabbi Ben Ezra waited for death to open the gate to it, but to her it seemed that she was in the midst of it now, that 'adventure brave and new' _in which death itself was also to be an adventure_ ...."