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disadventures

disadventures is the plural of disadventure.

Meaning of disadventure

Noun

disadventure (countable and uncountable, plural disadventures)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of misadventure, bad luck, an instance of bad luck, a mistake.
    • They passing by, a goodly Ship did see, / Laden from far with precious merchandize, / And brauely furnished, as ship might bee, / Which through great disauenture, or mesprize, / Her selfe had runne into that hazardize […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about disadventures

What is disadventures the plural of?
Disadventures is the plural of disadventure.

Words near disadventures in the dictionary

  1. disadvantageth
  2. disadvantaging
  3. disadvauntage
  4. disadvauntages
  5. disadventure
  6. disadventures
  7. disadventurous
  8. disadvise
  9. disadvised
  10. disadvises
  11. disadvising

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