Definition of "adventure"

adventure¹

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural adventures
1. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
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.
  Quotations
  He loved excitement and adventure.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
4. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
5. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  Quotations
  The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
  1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash‎, number 4, (review)
  To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]
  1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves [review]”, in Your Sinclair‎, number 29, archived from the original on 26 May 2013
  Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
  1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  Quotations
  He was in great adventure of his life.
  1895, Lord Berners, transl., The Chronicles of Froissart

adventure²

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

verb
third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured
1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  Quotations
  And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 19:31
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  Quotations
  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..
  1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […]; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, page 150
  Discriminations might be adventured.
  c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups
3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
  Quotations
  The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this.
  1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Gutch, page 661

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