noun

adventure

uhd-VEHN-chuh

noun

An exciting or unusual experience, often involving some risk or the unknown.

"Backpacking across South America was the adventure of a lifetime."

"The kids treated the school trip like a grand adventure."

verb

To take a risk by venturing into something uncertain.

"He adventured into business without any real experience."

How to Use Adventure

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishAn exciting, often risky, experience or undertaking.

Common pairings

sense of adventure go on an adventure adventure game seek adventure

Word Forms

adventured past tense, adventures plural, adventure plural, adventured plural, adventures singular, adventure singular, adventured singular, adventurest singular, adventuredst singular, adventureth singular

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Etymology

From Old French aventure, ultimately from Latin adventurus, "about to arrive" — in the Romance languages it came to mean "to happen" or "to befall."

Rhymes for adventure

pure cure sure lure Kure azure nature future manure secure impure injure

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