adventure

Meaning

1. 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.
4. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
5. A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

venture

risk

take chances

risky venture

dangerous undertaking

run a risk

take risks

tempt Providence

business speculation

speculative trade

speculation business

aventure

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ad‧ven‧ture

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.