Adventure

1. n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
2. n. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
3. n. Risk; danger; peril.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one’s life.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.