Definitions for adventure

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adventure ad·ven·ture

Spelling: [ad-ven-cher]

IPA: /ædˈvɛn tʃər/

Adventure is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in adventure (adeenrtuv).

Definitions for adventure

noun

1. an exciting or very unusual experience.
2. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises:
3. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.
4. a commercial or financial speculation of any kind; venture.
5. Obsolete. peril; danger; risk. chance; fortune; luck.

verb (used with object)

1. to risk or hazard.
2. to take the chance of; dare.
3. to venture to say or utter:

verb (used without object)

1. to take the risk involved.
2. to venture; hazard.

Origin of adventure

1200-50; Middle English aventure Anglo-French, Old French Vulgar Latin *adventūra what must happen, feminine (orig. neuter plural) of Latin adventūrus future participle of advenīre to arrive;

Examples for adventure

They appear to see not atrocities but adventure, not gore but glory.

Well, and aren't you as fond of adventure as anybody in the wide world?

Where would be the fun of such an adventure if you had it alone?

Now this one-month adventure has been turned into a documentary, fittingly titled Banksy Does New York, set to air Nov. 17 on HBO.

At 7.30 my brother and Windich returned, and were surprised to hear of our adventure.

The hero first enters a period known as separation, where he leaves his past and enters a new life of adventure.

Thrust into a world of seemingly supernatural monsters, his adventure begins.

Marcel the elephant takes readers on a journey through his life, recounting his memories full of travel and adventure.

Even Hope's strong constitution felt the shock of this adventure.

For was not this the adventure of which she had so often dreamed?