adventure

1. 1.

   take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

   “When you buy these stocks you are gambling”

   Synonymsgamblechanceriskhazardtake chancesrun a risktake a chance

   Broadertry

   Narrowergo for brokeluck it
2. 2.

   put at risk

   “I will stake my good reputation for this”

   Synonymsventurehazardstakejeopardize

   Broaderrisk

1. 1.

   a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

   Synonymsescapaderisky venturedangerous undertaking

   Broaderundertaking

Other forms of adventure

plural

adventures·

past tense

adventured·

present participle

adventuring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adventure

What does adventure mean?

adventure means "take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adventure?

adventure has 3 syllables: ad-ven-ture. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ædˈvɛntʃɚ/.

What is another word for adventure?

Close synonyms include gamble, chance, risk, hazard, take chances. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adventure a common word?

adventure is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adventure?

2 words rhyme with adventure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.