adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking
(noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance
(verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; “When you buy these stocks you are gambling”
venture, hazard, adventure, stake, jeopardize
(verb) put at risk; “I will stake my good reputation for this”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
• (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also luck
• (chance of danger or loss): hazard
• (risk): jeopardy; see also danger
• abstention, peradventure, unadventurous
adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)
(archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
(archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
• aventured, unaverted
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*ven"ture, n. Etym: [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.] Etym: [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.
Definition: To try the chance; to take the risk. I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 January 2025
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