adventurenoun詞源 1/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/

• 1

  A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

  • his sense of adventure
• 2

  A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

  • a life full of adventures
• 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.

  • He loved excitement and adventure.
• 4

  A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

• 5

  video-gamesA text adventure or an adventure game.

  • 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[...]
• 6

  obsoleteThat which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

• 7

  obsoleteChance of danger or loss.

• 8

  obsoleteRisk; danger; peril.

  • He was in great adventure of his life.

adventureverb詞源 2/ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/

• 1

  archaicTo risk oneself.

  • O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]
  • And certaine of the chiefe of Aſia, which were his friends, ſent vnto him, deſiring him that he would not aduenture himſelfe into the Theatre.
• 2

  To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.

  • [A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]
  • Why, we wil ſet forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleaſure to faile; and then wil they aduenture vpõ the exploit themſelues, which they ſhal haue no ſooner atchieued but weele ſet vpon them.
• 3

  archaicTo try the chance; to take the risk.

  • What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.
  • Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.
• 4

  To dare to say or utter.

  • But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!
  • ‘Did he tell you about us?’ she adventured, cautiously.
• 5

  archaicTo venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

  • Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]
  • Discriminations might be adventured.
• 6

  To risk or hazard; jeopard.

  • Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?
  • So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death.