Adventure : (noun)
1: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
[syn: escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking]
(verb)
1: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you
buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: gamble, chance,
risk, hazard, take chances, run a risk, take a
chance]
2: put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"
[syn: venture, hazard, stake, jeopardize]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Adventure : \Ad*ven"ture\, v. i.
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Adventure : \Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured; p.
pr. & vb. n. Adventuring.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F.
aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]
1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
--Acts xix.
31.
2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back. --Bunyan,
Discriminations might be adventured. --J. Taylor.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Adventure : \Ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OE. aventure, aunter,
anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire,
adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the
sense of ``to happen, befall.'' See Advene.]
1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap;
hence, chance of danger or loss.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she
must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him
individually. --Milton.
2. Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]
He was in great adventure of his life. --Berners.
3. 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.
He loved excitement and adventure. --Macaulay.
4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring
incident; as, the adventures of one's life. --Bacon.
5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a
venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that
the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.
Syn: Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ADVENTURE, bill of. A writing signed by a merchant, to testify that the
goods shipped on board a certain vessel are at the venture of another
person, he himself being answerable only for the produce. Techn. Dict.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ADVENTURE, crim. law. See Misadventure.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ADVENTURE, mer. law. Goods sent abroad under the care of a supercargo, to be
disposed of to the best advantage for the benefit of his employers, is
called an adventure.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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