Adventure: Definition and part of speech

Adventure

n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
n. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
n. Risk; danger; peril.
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.
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.

n. Injury; degradation; ruin.
n. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
n. Adulteration; corruption.
n. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
n. Faithlessness in religion.
n. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
n. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

v. t. To overshadow; to shade.
v. t. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

n. The shadow or outlines of a figure.
n. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
n. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.