What does "adventure" mean?
Adventure: Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon.
- 4.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.
- 5.To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix.
- 6.2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.
- 7.To try the chance; to take the risk. I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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