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
- 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
- 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.»
- Alice tells her sister all her adventures, then runs in to tea.
- He listens to their whole adventure and never once says «I told you so».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «adventure» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.