Definition of adventure

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Adventure (n.) 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..

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Romance :: Romance (n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like..
Demirep :: Demirep (n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Return :: Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc..
Aventure :: Aventure (n.) Accident; chance; adventure.
Disventure :: Disventure (n.) A disadventure.
Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.
Condottiere :: Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest..
Adventuress :: Adventuress (n.) A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Sea King :: Sea king () One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Peradventure :: Peradventure (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) 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..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Venturer :: Venturer (n.) One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..
Coadventurer :: Coadventurer (n.) A fellow adventurer.
Adventured :: Adventured (imp. & p. p.) of Adventur.
Misaventure :: Misaventure (n.) Misadventure.
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