Other forms: adventures
An adventure is an exciting experience full of new places and a little danger. Go on an adventure, an adventure holiday, a great adventure.
The danger is essential to the word — an adventure without any risk is just a trip — and the amount is usually small and voluntary. Adventure playgrounds are built on the finding that some risk is good for children. Note that the Latin means about to happen, which is why an adventure is something that befalls you.
1nounadventureAn exciting experience with new places and some danger.
“Their trip through the jungle was a real adventure.”
adventure is an experience.
Old French aventure comes from Latin adventurus, about to happen, from advenire, to arrive. Advent and venture come from the same arriving.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷem-
Middle English
aventure
English, today
adventure
Built from
From Middle English aventure. 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 languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). by surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA