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ADVENTURE STORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adventure story mean?
• ADVENTURE STORY (noun)
The noun ADVENTURE STORY has 1 sense:
1. a story of an adventure
Familiarity information: ADVENTURE STORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A story of an adventure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
adventure story; heroic tale
Hypernyms ("adventure story" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adventure story"):
thriller (a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie)
saga (a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account)
Context examples
He would write an adventure story for boys and sell it to The Youth's Companion.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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