adventure story
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- noun
- /ædˈvɛnʧər ˈstɔri/
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historia de aventuras
- The New Yorker film critic described Hunger Games as "the sort of rugged girls' adventure story that used to be written for boys."
- a great adventure story
- a good adventure story
- an action-adventure story
Alexa read me a sci-fi adventure story on Audible.
- Alexa read me a sci-fi adventure story on Audible.
- It's just like this kind of fantastical adventure story.
- So what we've got here is, is a very interesting kind of adventure story, self discovery story.
- Those kinds of action adventure stories are, yes, in the lower chakras.
- There's creature features and then there are, I'd call it like boy family safe, but boy driven adventure story.
Examples
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Viva has put forth a fantastic "toon" adventure story for early readers.
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It's a fanciful, exciting, passionate adventure story.
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It's like an adventure story.
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"Do you believe my little adventure story?" the American asked her.
Fiction book (1998) -
I read a lot of adventure stories when I was a kid...
Fiction book (1993) -
This isn't an adventure story.
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My son was always reading adventure stories, and he was crazy about the news coming out of the Yukon.
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I found it magnificent, a wonderful adventure story, but also an insightful look at racism.
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In the 19th century... ...Jules Verne wrote some of the greatest adventure stories ever told.
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She loves reading an adventure story filled with daring quests and brave heroes.
Synonyms
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A story about exciting, often dangerous journeys where people do brave things
How Exciting
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a story involving exciting, risky experiences' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'adventure' (an exciting, sometimes dangerous experience) with 'story' (a narrative). This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows straightforward noun + noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Adventure story comes from the idea of adventure meaning a 'risky, exciting' event. Picture a hero leaving home to explore unknown places, face danger and find new things, so the phrase means a story full of exciting, risky experiences.