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detour
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di?.t??(?)/, /?di?.t??(?)/
Noun
detour (plural detours)
- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
See also
- bypass
- roundabout
Translations
Verb
detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)
- (intransitive) To make a detour.
- (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.
Translations
Anagrams
- Drouet, douter, redout, routed, toured
Middle English
Noun
detour
- Alternative form of dettour
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adventure
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)
- 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.
- A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
- A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
- (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
- (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
- (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
- (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
- (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
- He was in great adventure of his life.
- 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart
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)
- (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
- (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
- c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
- Discriminations might be adventured.
- c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:
- (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
- 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)
- adventure
- fortune
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