Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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adventure

UK /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/ · US /ədˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms adventures adventuring adventured adventurest adventuredst adventureth aventure

  1. noun (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things. “his sense of adventure”
  2. noun A remarkable occurrence; a striking event. “a life full of adventures”
  3. noun A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.
  4. noun A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  5. noun (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  6. noun (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
  7. noun (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
  8. noun (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  9. verb (reflexive, now rare) To risk oneself.
  10. verb (intransitive) To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.
  11. verb (intransitive with infinitive, now rare) To try the chance; to take the risk.
  12. verb (transitive) To dare to say or utter.
  13. verb (transitive, archaic) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  14. verb (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard.

Synonyms

fortune hazard luck accident casualty chance chance-medley hap joss serendipity weird jeopardy danger distress harm's way peril extremity threat menace venture escapade risky venture dangerous undertaking gamble risk take chances run a risk take a chance stake jeopardize

Antonyms

abstention

Etymology

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene). By surface analysis, advent + -ure.
Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.

From Middle English aventuren, auntren, from Old French aventurer, from aventure.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  2. noun Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]
  3. verb To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
  4. verb To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

Etymology [OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall." See Advene.]

Etymology [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “adventure”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “adventure” (best matches first).