adventure
/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "his sense of adventure"
- "a life full of adventures"
- "He loved excitement and adventure."
- "The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure."
- "To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]"
- "Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷəniō Latin veniō Latin adveniō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *-rós ? Latin -tūrus Latin adventūrus Vulgar Latin *adventūra Old French aventurebor. Middle English aventure English adventure 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). By surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
adventures (plural)
aventure (alternative, obsolete)
adventures (present, singular)
adventuring (participle, present)
adventured (participle, past)
adventured (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
adventured (first person, past)
adventurest (archaic, present)
adventured (past, second person)
adventuredst (archaic, past)