adventure

Definition von adventure im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life; A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account; 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; To try the chance; to take the risk; To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare; That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss; To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture; {v} to try the chance, dare, hazard; {n} accident, chance, enterprise, trial; 6TH GRADE OUTWARD BOUND TYPE PROGRAM PROGRAM; put at risk; "I will stake my good reputation for this"; The adventure story is one that has to have somthing happen There has to be action and conflict within thie type of story The author has to have the reader identify with a character in the story in order to draw them in; a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful); {i} magazine from the National Geographic Society devoted to outdoor adventure excursions; The exposure of property to risk; One of the earliest text adventure games written for computers It is the forerunner of the popular Zork series from Infocom; Merchant-Ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, John Nicholas of Liverpool Commander" (I: 8;11); the crew of the Adventure abandons Gulliver on Brobdingnag "a stout Merchant-Man of 350 Tuns" which Gulliver captains in the fourth voyage (IV: 1;1); after many of his crew die from Calentures, the replacements mutiny and take Gulliver prisoner, eventually setting him on shore on Houyhnhnm Land (IV: 1;2); An evening of drunken debauchery with maybe a game involved; take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling"; A particular pulp magazine published in the 30's in which L Ron Hubbard's stories appeared regularly; Adventure is excitement and willingness to do new, unusual, or rather dangerous things. Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure; {i} escapade, exciting experience; risky undertaking; Risk; danger; peril; A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of ones life; To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture; {f} dare, participate in an exciting experience; endanger oneself, put oneself at risk; If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events. I set off for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year
adventure education: The use of cooperative games, trust activities, problem solving initiatives, high adventure activities, and wilderness expeditions as a means of helping individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations engage in a change or growth process
adventure education: outdoor education
adventure game: A computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges
adventure games: plural form of adventure game
adventure tourism: Adventure tourism is a type of niche tourism involving exploration or travel to remote areas, where the traveler should expect the unexpected
adventure park: park for adventure sports (such as rock climbing, boating, etc.)
adventure playground: An adventure playground is an area of land for children to play in, usually in cities or in a park. It has wooden structures and equipment such as ropes, nets, and rubber tyres. an area of ground for children to play on, with equipment and structures for climbing on
adventure story: a story of an adventure
adventure story: story of an adventure, heroic story
action adventure: A genre of film specializing in violence and intrigue
text adventure: A computer game in which the player is given a textual description of the environment and uses a command line to interact with it
adventured: past of adventure
adventures: third-person singular of adventure
adventures: plural of adventure
adventuring: present participle of adventure
bold adventure: dangerous adventure, risky activity
romantic adventure: adventure undertaken for romance

adventure

Silbentrennung

ad·ven·ture

Türkische aussprache

ädvençır

Synonyme

chance, contingency, emprise, endangerment, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene

Antonyme

boredom, avoidance, inaction, inactivity, inertia, latency, passiveness, stillness

Aussprache

/adˈvenʧər/ /ædˈvɛnʧɜr/

Etymologie

[ &d-ven-ch&r ] (noun.) 14th century. From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).