different between adventure vs glitter

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/, /æd?v?nt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/
• Hyphenation: ad?ven?ture

Etymology 1

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

1. The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

3. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
4. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

5. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
   • 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart

     He was in great adventure of his life.

Synonyms

• (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of danger or loss): hazard
• (risk): jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger

Antonyms

• abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

Derived terms

• at all adventures

Related terms

• advent
• advene

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)

1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
   • c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:

     Discriminations might be adventured.

3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• aventured, unaverted

Latin

Participle

advent?re

1. vocative masculine singular of advent?rus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• aventure

Etymology

From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin advent?rum.

Noun

adventure f (plural adventures)

1. adventure
2. fortune

English

Etymology

From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitr?n? (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ley-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?t?/, [??l???]
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

glitter (countable and uncountable, plural glitters)

1. A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.
   • 1913, Mary Averill, Japanese flower arrangement Chapter 20

     This to them seems most like mother earth in color, and therefore best, as it is, to enhance the beauty of flowers instead of detracting from their exquisite shades. What a contrast to the glitter and show of our silver vases, which represent generally little else but their cost.

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 57

     As yet there had been no symptom of the news having any better foundation than in the fears of those who brought it, but The Boot had not been deserted five minutes, when there appeared, coming across the fields, a body of men who, it was easy to see, by the glitter of their arms and ornaments in the sun, and by their orderly and regular mode of advancing

2. A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
3. (figuratively) Glitz.

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: glitter
• ? Spanish: glitter

Translations

Verb

glitter (third-person singular simple present glitters, present participle glittering, simple past and past participle glittered)

1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.

   a glittering sword

   the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree

   • The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.

2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.

   the glittering scenes of a court

Derived terms

• all that glitters is not gold

Translations

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English glitter.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??li.te?/

Noun

glitter m (uncountable)

1. glitter (shiny, decorative dust)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English glitter.

Noun

glitter m (plural glitteres)

1. glitter

Swedish

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse glitra.

Noun

glitter n (uncountable)

1. glitter; a shiny, decorative adornment

Declension

Related terms

• glittra
• glittrig