Adventuress vs. Adventure — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adventuress and Adventure
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Adventuress
A woman who seeks social and financial advancement by unscrupulous means. See Usage Note at -ess.
Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.
Adventuress
A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
Adventure
An unusual and exciting or daring experience
Her recent adventures in Italy
Adventuress
A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
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Adventure
Engage in daring or risky activity
They had adventured into the forest
Adventuress
A female varietist.
Adventure
An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
Adventuress
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Adventure
An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
Adventuress
A woman adventurer
Adventure
An unusual or exciting experience
An adventure in dining.
Adventure
Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences
The love of adventure.
Adventure
A financial speculation or business venture.
Adventure
To venture upon; undertake or try
Adventure a joke.
Adventure
To expose to danger or risk
"I had adventured other people's safety in a course of self-indulgence" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Adventure
To proceed despite risks
Adventure into the wilderness.
Adventure
To take a risk; dare
"the first glass of wine I have adventured to drink" (Lawrence Sterne).
Adventure
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
A life full of adventures.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
His sense of adventure
Adventure
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
Adventure
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
Adventure
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
Adventure
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
Adventure
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
Adventure
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.
Adventure
Risk; danger; peril.
He was in great adventure of his life.
Adventure
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.
He loved excitement and adventure.
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back.
Discriminations might be adventured.
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise.
Adventure
A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
Adventure
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Adventure
Put at risk;
I will stake my good reputation for this
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