adventure

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: escapade risky venture dangerous undertaking gamble chance risk hazard take chances run a risk take a chance venture stake

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)Synonyms: escapade risky venture dangerous undertaking

Verb (2)

take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome“When you buy these stocks you are gambling”Synonyms: gamble chance risk hazard take chances run a risk take a chance
put at risk“I will stake my good reputation for this”Synonyms: venture hazard stake jeopardize

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall." See Advene.] [1913 Webster]

1.That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. [1913 Webster]

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

He was in great adventure of his life.— Berners.[1913 Webster]

3.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. [1913 Webster]

He loved excitement and adventure.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

4.A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

5.A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. [1913 Webster]

A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event. [1913 Webster]

Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured; p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]

1.To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. [1913 Webster]

He would not adventure himself into the theater.— Acts xix. 31.[1913 Webster]

2.To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. [1913 Webster]

Yet they adventured to go back.— Bunyan,[1913 Webster]

Discriminations might be adventured.— J. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk. [1913 Webster]

I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak. [1913 Webster]