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Adventure vs Safari - What's the difference?

adventure | safari |

In intransitive terms the difference between adventure and safari

is that adventure is to try the chance; to take the risk while safari is to take part in a safari.

As nouns the difference between adventure and safari

is that adventure is the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat while safari is a trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment.

As verbs the difference between adventure and safari

is that adventure is to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture while safari is to take part in a safari.

adventure

Etymology 1

From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

(en noun)
  • The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
  • * Macaulay
  • He loved excitement and adventure .
  • A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
  • (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
  • * 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]
  • The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .
  • * 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]
  • To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger
  • * 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)
  • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
  • (obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
  • * Milton
  • Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.
  • (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
  • * Berners
  • He was in great adventure of his life.
    Derived terms
    * (remarkable occurrence) boredom
    Antonyms
    * abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.

    Verb

    (adventur)
  • To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
  • * Bible, Acts xix. 31
  • He would not adventure himself into the theatre.
  • To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • * Bunyan
  • Yet they adventured to go back.
  • * J. Taylor
  • Discriminations might be adventured .
  • To try the chance; to take the risk.
  • * '>citation
  • Derived terms
    * adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousness

    References

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    safari

    English

    (wikipedia safari)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or hunt wild animals in their own environment.
  • A caravan going on a safari.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a safari.
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