adventure

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/
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• Canada, General-American: /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/
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• Canada, General-American: /ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE0 D V EH1 N CH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gwem- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *gwm̥yéti Proto-Italic *gwəniō Latin veniō Latin adveniō 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 languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). By surface analysis, advent + -ure. Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.

From Middle English aventuren, auntren, from Old French aventurer, from aventure.

221 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: aventurë — encountering of risks
• Arabic: مُغَامَرَة (muḡāmara) — encountering of risks
• Arabic: مُغامرة (muḡāmara) — encountering of risks
• Armenian: արկածախնդրություն (arkacaxndrutʻyun) — encountering of risks
• Asturian: aventura — encountering of risks
• Azerbaijani: avantüra — encountering of risks
• Azerbaijani: macəra — encountering of risks
• Bashkir: мажара (majara) — encountering of risks
• Basque: abentura — encountering of risks
• Belarusian: аванту́ра (avantúra) — encountering of risks
• Belarusian: прыго́да (pryhóda) — encountering of risks
• Bulgarian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — encountering of risks
• Bulgarian: приключе́ние (priključénie) — encountering of risks
• Bulgarian: похожде́ние (pohoždénie) — encountering of risks
• Catalan: aventura — encountering of risks
• Chinese Mandarin: 冒險 /冒险 (màoxiǎn) — encountering of risks
• Crimean Tatar: avantüra — encountering of risks
• Czech: dobrodružství — encountering of risks
• Dutch: avontuur — encountering of risks
• Esperanto: aventuro — encountering of risks
• Estonian: seiklus — encountering of risks
• Finnish: seikkailu — encountering of risks
• French: aventure — encountering of risks
• Galician: aventura — encountering of risks
• Georgian: თავგადასავალი (tavgadasavali) — encountering of risks
• German: Abenteuer — encountering of risks
• German: Wagnis — encountering of risks
• Hawaiian: hoʻopīhoihoi — encountering of risks
• Hebrew: הַרְפַּתְקָה (harpatká) — encountering of risks
• Hungarian: kaland — encountering of risks
• Indonesian: petualangan — encountering of risks
• Indonesian: avontur — encountering of risks
• Irish: eachtra — encountering of risks
• Italian: avventura — encountering of risks
• Italian: peripezia — encountering of risks
• Japanese: 冒険 (bōken) — encountering of risks
• Khmer: ការដើរផ្សងព្រេង (daə phsɑɑng preing) — encountering of risks
• Korean: 모험 (moheom) — encountering of risks
• Latin: periculum — encountering of risks
• Latin: discrimen — encountering of risks
• Latvian: piedzīvojums — encountering of risks
• Lithuanian: nuotykis — encountering of risks
• Macedonian: авантура (avantura) — encountering of risks
• Malay: pengembaraan — encountering of risks
• Malayalam: സാഹസം (sāhasaṁ) — encountering of risks
• Māori: rāwekeweke — encountering of risks
• Māori: (mahi) mātātoa — encountering of risks
• Mirandese: abintura — encountering of risks
• Mongolian: адал явдал (adal javdal) — encountering of risks
• Nahuatl: tetzauhyōtl — encountering of risks
• Persian: ماجرا (mâjarâ) — encountering of risks
• Polish: przygoda — encountering of risks
• Polish: awantura — encountering of risks
• Portuguese: aventura — encountering of risks
• Romanian: aventură — encountering of risks
• Russian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — encountering of risks
• Russian: приключе́ние (priključénije) — encountering of risks
• Russian: похожде́ние (poxoždénije) — encountering of risks
• Serbo-Croatian: пустоло̀вина — encountering of risks
• Serbo-Croatian: аванту́ра — encountering of risks
• Serbo-Croatian: pustolòvina — encountering of risks
• Serbo-Croatian: avantúra — encountering of risks
• Slovak: dobrodružstvo — encountering of risks
• Slovene: pustolovščina — encountering of risks
• Spanish: aventura — encountering of risks
• Swedish: äventyr — encountering of risks
• Tagalog: pakikipagsapalaran — encountering of risks
• Tajik: моҷаро (mojaro) — encountering of risks
• Thai: การผจญภัย (gaan-pà-jon-pai) — encountering of risks
• Thai: การเสี่ยงภัย — encountering of risks
• Turkish: avantür — encountering of risks
• Turkish: macera — encountering of risks
• Ukrainian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — encountering of risks
• Ukrainian: приго́да (pryhóda) — encountering of risks
• Uzbek: sarguzasht — encountering of risks
• Uzbek: mojaro — encountering of risks
• Vietnamese: mạo hiểm — encountering of risks
• Volapük: ventür — encountering of risks
• Walloon: avirete — encountering of risks
• Welsh: antur — encountering of risks
• Yiddish: אַוואַנטורע (avanture) — encountering of risks
• Arabic: مُخَاطَرَة (muḵāṭara) — remarkable occurrence
• Arabic: مُغَامَرَة (muḡāmara) — remarkable occurrence
• Arabic: حَادِثَة (ḥādiṯa) — remarkable occurrence
• Armenian: արկած (arkac) — remarkable occurrence
• Bashkir: мажара (majara) — remarkable occurrence
• Basque: abentura — remarkable occurrence
• Belarusian: прыго́да (pryhóda) — remarkable occurrence
• Belarusian: падзе́я (padzjéja) — remarkable occurrence
• Bulgarian: приключе́ние (priključénie) — remarkable occurrence
• Bulgarian: съби́тие (sǎbítie) — remarkable occurrence
• Catalan: aventura — remarkable occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 奇遇 (qíyù) — remarkable occurrence
• Chinese Mandarin: 冒險 /冒险 (màoxiǎn) — remarkable occurrence
• Czech: dobrodružství — remarkable occurrence
• Dutch: avontuur — remarkable occurrence
• Estonian: seiklus — remarkable occurrence
• Finnish: seikkailu — remarkable occurrence
• French: aventure — remarkable occurrence
• Galician: aventura — remarkable occurrence
• Georgian: თავგადასავალი (tavgadasavali) — remarkable occurrence
• German: Abenteuer — remarkable occurrence
• Greek: περιπέτεια (peripéteia) — remarkable occurrence
• Italian: avventura — remarkable occurrence
• Japanese: アドベンチャー (adobenchā) — remarkable occurrence
• Japanese: 冒険 (bōken) — remarkable occurrence
• Kazakh: оқиға (oqiğa) — remarkable occurrence
• Korean: 어드벤처 (eodeubencheo) — remarkable occurrence
• Korean: 모험 (moheom) — remarkable occurrence
• Kyrgyz: окуя (okuya) — remarkable occurrence
• Latin: fortuna — remarkable occurrence
• Latin: fortuna — remarkable occurrence
• Latin: casus — remarkable occurrence
• Latin: eventa — remarkable occurrence
• Latvian: piedzīvojums — remarkable occurrence
• Lithuanian: núotykis — remarkable occurrence
• Persian: حادثه (hâdese) — remarkable occurrence
• Polish: przygoda — remarkable occurrence
• Polish: wydarzenie — remarkable occurrence
• Portuguese: aventura — remarkable occurrence
• Russian: приключе́ние (priključénije) — remarkable occurrence
• Russian: собы́тие (sobýtije) — remarkable occurrence
• Scottish Gaelic: eachtradh — remarkable occurrence
• Slovak: dobrodružstvo — remarkable occurrence
• Spanish: aventura — remarkable occurrence
• Swedish: äventyr — remarkable occurrence
• Tajik: ҳодиса (hodisa) — remarkable occurrence
• Ukrainian: приго́да (pryhóda) — remarkable occurrence
• Ukrainian: поді́я (podíja) — remarkable occurrence
• Vietnamese: phiêu lưu — remarkable occurrence
• Volapük: ventür — remarkable occurrence
• Bulgarian: приключение (priključenie) — daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events and the encountering of risks
• Māori: mahi mātātoa — daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events and the encountering of risks
• Swedish: äventyr — daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events and the encountering of risks
• Arabic: مُجَازَفَة (mujāzafa) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Arabic: مُغَامَرَة (muḡāmara) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Belarusian: аванту́ра (avantúra) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Bulgarian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Chinese Mandarin: 投機 /投机 (tóujī) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Crimean Tatar: avantüra — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Dutch: risico — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Dutch: avontuur — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Estonian: seiklus — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Finnish: seikkailu — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• French: aventure — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Indonesian: risiko — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Italian: rischio — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Italian: speculazione — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Japanese: 投機 (tōki) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Korean: 투기 (tugi) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Latin: periculum — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Latin: discrimen — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Russian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Serbo-Croatian: аванту́ра — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Serbo-Croatian: avantúra — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Ukrainian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Volapük: ventür — mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard
• Bulgarian: приключение (priključenie) — adventure game
• Czech: adventura — adventure game
• Finnish: seikkailupeli — adventure game
• Galician: aventura — adventure game
• Russian: приключение (priključenije) — adventure game
• Russian: адвенчура (advenčura) — adventure game
• Swedish: äventyrsspel — adventure game
• Afrikaans: avontuur — that which happens without design
• Albanian: aventurë — that which happens without design
• Arabic: مُجَازَفَة (mujāzafa) — that which happens without design
• Basque: abentura — that which happens without design
• Bulgarian: авантю́ра (avantjúra) — that which happens without design
• Bulgarian: приключе́ние (priključénie) — that which happens without design
• Catalan: aventura — that which happens without design
• Chinese Mandarin: 冒險 /冒险 (màoxiǎn) — that which happens without design
• Dutch: avontuur — that which happens without design
• Estonian: seiklus — that which happens without design
• Finnish: sattuma — that which happens without design
• French: aventure — that which happens without design
• German: Abenteuer — that which happens without design
• Middle High German: aventiure — that which happens without design
• Hebrew: הַרְפַּתְקָה (harpatká) — that which happens without design
• Icelandic: ævintýri — that which happens without design
• Indonesian: petualangan — that which happens without design
• Italian: avventura — that which happens without design
• Japanese: 冒険 (bōken) — that which happens without design
• Korean: 모험 (moheom) — that which happens without design
• Latin: fortuna — that which happens without design
• Latin: casus — that which happens without design
• Latin: eventa — that which happens without design
• Malay: pengembaraan — that which happens without design
• Maltese: avventura — that which happens without design
• Mongolian: хийморь (xiimorʹ) — that which happens without design
• Polish: wypadek — that which happens without design
• Polish: przypadek — that which happens without design
• Portuguese: aventura — that which happens without design
• Portuguese: peripécia — that which happens without design
• Portuguese: acaso — that which happens without design
• Russian: приключе́ние (priključénije) — that which happens without design
• Serbo-Croatian: пустоло̀вина — that which happens without design
• Serbo-Croatian: pustolòvina — that which happens without design
• Spanish: aventura — that which happens without design
• Turkish: macera — that which happens without design
• Turkish: seruven — that which happens without design
• Vietnamese: mạo hiểm — that which happens without design
• Volapük: ventür — that which happens without design
• Finnish: vaara — risk; danger; peril
• Hebrew: הַרְפַּתְקָה (harpatká) — risk; danger; peril
• Bulgarian: рискувам (riskuvam) — to risk
• Dutch: wagen — to risk
• Dutch: riskeren — to risk
• Finnish: ottaa riski — to risk
• Finnish: riskeerata — to risk
• Malayalam: സാഹസപ്പെടുക (sāhasappeṭuka) — to risk
• Russian: рискова́ть (riskovátʹ) — to risk
• Russian: рискну́ть (risknútʹ) — to risk
• Spanish: aventura — to risk
• Bulgarian: рискувам (riskuvam) — to run the risk of
• Dutch: wagen — to run the risk of
• Dutch: riskeren — to run the risk of
• Finnish: riskeerata — to run the risk of
• Malayalam: സാഹസമെടുക്കുക (sāhasameṭukkuka) — to run the risk of
• Russian: рискова́ть (riskovátʹ) — to run the risk of
• Russian: рискну́ть (risknútʹ) — to run the risk of