adventure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An exciting or unusual experience, often involving some risk or danger.

   We went on an adventure to find the hidden treasure.

2. 2
   noun

   The excitement that comes from doing new and risky things.

   He left his job and travelled the world out of a sense of adventure.

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Simplified etymology

Adventure came through Middle English from Latin advenire, meaning “to arrive.” In the Middle Ages it referred to anything that happened by chance, and hence to chance, fortune, or luck. Risk and danger gradually became more prominent in its meaning, producing the sense “hazardous undertaking” and, by the late 15th century, “exciting incident.”

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Vulgar Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gʷənjō Vulgar Latin veniō Vulgar Latin adveniō Vulgar Latin adventūrus Vulgar Latin *adventūra Old French aventurebor. Middle English aventure English adventure From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance…

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