# adventure

> English word · Noun · IPA /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ · frequency rank #3,205

## Definitions
1. A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
3. A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.
4. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
5. A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. Chance of danger or loss.
8. Risk; danger; peril.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Vulgar Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti
Proto-Italic *gʷənjō
Vulgar Latin veniō
Vulgar Latin adveniō
Vulgar 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.

## Easily confused with
- **adventures** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/adventure-vs-adventures)
- **adventurer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/adventure-vs-adventurer)

## Common misspellings (13)
`addventure`, `adevnture`, `advennture`, `adventrue`, `adventture`, `adventuer`, `adventurre`, `advenutre`, `advetnure`, `advneture`, `advventure`, `avdenture`, `daventure`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/adventure