• (GA, Canada) IPA: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/, /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

adventure

1. 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.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

   A life full of adventures.

3. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
4. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

   his sense of adventure

5. (video games) 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.

   • He was in great adventure of his life.

• (that which happens by chance) fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of danger or loss) hazard
• (risk) jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger

• abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

• advent
• advene

• French: aventure
• German: Abenteuer, Wagnis
• Italian: avventura, peripezia
• Portuguese: aventura
• Russian: авантю́ра
• Spanish: aventura

• French: aventure
• German: Abenteuer
• Italian: avventura
• Portuguese: aventura
• Russian: приключе́ние
• Spanish: aventura

• French: aventure
• Italian: rischio, speculazione
• Russian: авантю́ра

• French: aventure
• German: Abenteuer
• Italian: avventura
• Portuguese: aventura, peripécia, acaso
• Russian: приключе́ние
• Spanish: aventura

adventure (adventures, present participle adventuring; past and past participle adventured)

1. (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 19:31 ↗:

     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.

2. (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

   • Yet they adventured to go back.

   • Discriminations might be adventured.

3. (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

• Russian: рискова́ть
• Spanish: aventura

• Russian: рискова́ть