Definition of adventure

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Adventure (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life..

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Adventureful :: Adventureful (a.) Given to adventure.
Love :: Love (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures..
Peradventure :: Peradventure (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
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..
Expediency :: Expediency (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture..
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Partnership :: Partnership (n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure..
Lucky :: Lucky (superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer..
Coadventure :: Coadventure (v. i.) To share in a venture.
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..
Romantic :: Romantic (a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape..
Picaresque :: Picaresque (a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer..
Coadventurer :: Coadventurer (n.) A fellow adventurer.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) Risk; danger; peril.
Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.
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