Definition of Adventure story

1. Noun. A story of an adventure.

Exact synonyms: Heroic Tale
Generic synonyms: Story
Specialized synonyms: Thriller, Saga

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adventure Story

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adventitious bursa
adventitious cyst
adventitious root
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adventitiousness
adventive
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advents
adventual
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adventure education
adventure game
adventure games
adventure story (current term)
adventured
adventureful
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adventurer
adventurers
adventures
adventuresome
adventuresomely
adventuresomeness
adventuresses
adventuring
adventurings
adventurish

Literary usage of Adventure story

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"Little, Brown & Company's NEW 1920 FICTION adventure story—Love Story—Nature Story THE VOICE OF THE PACK By EDISON MARSHALL We believe that this story will ..."

2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1903)
"It is a good old-fashioned adventure story full to the edges with adventure of all sorts. Absolutely nothing in the way of romance and adventure is omitted ..."

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