adventure

  • 21Adventure! — Infobox RPG title= Adventure! caption= designer= Andrew Bates, Kraig Blackwelder, Ken Cliffe, Rob Hatch, Clayton A. Oliver, Richard Thomas, Fred Yelk publisher= White Wolf Game Studio date=2001 genre= Historical fiction, Superhero fiction system …

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  • 22adventure — [[t]ædve̱ntʃə(r)[/t]] adventures, adventuring, adventured 1) N COUNT If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events. I set off for a new adventure in the United States… …

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  • 23adventure */*/ — UK [ədˈventʃə(r)] / US [ədˈventʃər] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms adventure : singular adventure plural adventures a) an exciting, unusual, and sometimes dangerous experience I decided I was ready for an adventure after college. The… …

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  • 24adventure — ad|ven|ture [ədˈventʃə US ər] n [U and C] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: aventure, from Latin advenire to arrive , from ad to + venire to come ] 1.) an exciting experience in which dangerous or unusual things happen ▪ a great adventure ▪ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25adventure — {{11}}adventure (n.) c.1200, auenture that which happens by chance, fortune, luck, from O.Fr. aventure (11c.) chance, accident, occurrence, event, happening, from L. adventura (res) (a thing) about to happen, from adventurus, future participle of …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 26adventure — An undertaking with an element of risk. A shipment of goods in charge of an agent to be sold by him for the shipper at the best price obtainable. As the word adventure is used in marine policies, it is everywhere employed as synonymous with peril …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 27adventure — ad|ven|ture [ əd ventʃər ] noun count or uncount ** an exciting, unusual, and sometimes dangerous experience: I decided I was ready for an adventure after college. The children were looking for adventure. a. uncount the feeling that you want to… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 28adventure — n. & v. n. 1 an unusual and exciting experience. 2 a daring enterprise; a hazardous activity. 3 enterprise (the spirit of adventure). 4 a commercial speculation. v.intr. 1 (often foll. by into, upon) dare to go or come. 2 (foll. by on, upon) dare …

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  • 29adventure — I. noun Etymology: Middle English aventure, chance, risk, from Anglo French, from Vulgar Latin *adventura, from Latin adventus, past participle of advenire to arrive, from ad + venire to come more at come Date: 14th century 1. a. an undertaking… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 30adventure — adventureful, adj. /ad ven cheuhr/, n., v., adventured, adventuring. n. 1. an exciting or very unusual experience. 2. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit of adventure. 3. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous… …

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