Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - adventure

(adventures) 1. If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events. I set off for a new adventure in the United States on the first day of the new year. N-COUNT 2. Adventure is excitement and willingness to do new, unusual, or rather dangerous things. Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure. N-UNCOUNT