different between adventure vs turmoil

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

Unknown origin. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??m??l/

Noun

turmoil (usually uncountable, plural turmoils)

1. A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
2. Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.

Synonyms

• chaos, disorder

Translations

Verb

turmoil (third-person singular simple present turmoils, present participle turmoiling, simple past and past participle turmoiled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

   • some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates

2. (obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

   • It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

Further reading

• turmoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• turmoil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• turmoil at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “turmoil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary