adventure
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Is adventure a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of adventure?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.Examples: "his sense of adventure"Antonyms: abstentionuncountable
2. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.Examples: "The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure."; "To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]"; "Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around."countableuncountable
3. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.Synonyms: fortune, hazard, luck, adventure, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medleycountableobsoleteuncountable
4. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.Synonyms: hazardcountableobsoleteuncountable
5. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.Examples: "He was in great adventure of his life."Synonyms: jeopardy, adventure, danger, distress, harm's way, peril, plight, jeopardycountableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.Examples: "So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death."; "And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre."; "In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway."archaictransitive
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.Examples: "Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.."; "Discriminations might be adventured."archaictransitive
3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.Examples: "The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this."archaicintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary