noun

• (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
  "his sense of adventure"
• (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  "The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure."
• (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
• (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.

verb

• (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  "So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death."
• (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  "Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.."
• (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.
  "The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this."