Definition of Adventure

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Adventure

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Risk; danger; peril.

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.

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.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

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Adventure Quotations

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Adventure Translations

adventure in Afrikaans is avontuur
adventure in Danish is eventyr
adventure in Dutch is avontuur, perikel, lotgeval
adventure in French is aventure
adventure in German is Abenteuer {n}
adventure in Norwegian is opplevelse, eventyr
adventure in Portuguese is aventura
adventure in Spanish is aventura

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