adventure
part of speech
noun (an adventure, adventures; adventure as uncountable — a love of adventure); adjective adventurous
meaning for a pupil
1) An adventure is an exciting, unusual and sometimes risky experience or journey. tree →
2) Adventure is the excitement of doing new and daring things. tree →
3) An adventure story is a story full of exciting events. tree →
sense in the lessons
In literacy, adventure stories are a genre with a hero, a journey, danger and a happy ending. In everyday life a trip, camping, or exploring a new place can be an adventure. In safety lessons: adventures should be planned with adults, and dangerous dares are not adventures. Phrases: «go on an adventure», «adventure playground», «sense of adventure».
examples
- for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian; (Prophets JDG.9.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. (Writings ECC.5.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- We went on an adventure in the woods behind the house. tree →
- Treasure Island is a famous adventure story. tree →
- The new adventure playground has a zip line. tree →
- Grandma loves adventure and travels all over the world. tree →
- Write an adventure story about a lost map. tree →
- Camping in the rain was quite an adventure! tree →
- The explorers had many adventures at sea. tree →
note
Countable (an adventure) and uncountable (a love of adventure). Adjective: adventurous; a person: adventurer. Spelled with «-ture». «It was an adventure» can also be a joking way to say something went wrong but was fun.
In the corpora
- for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
- and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- People joke that a goldfish forgets everything after three seconds, so swimming round a bowl is always a new adventure.
- Now the creatures want Alice's adventures.
- The adventures first: explanations take such a dreadful time.»
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «adventure» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.