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ADVENTURE STORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A story of an adventure
Synonyms:
adventure story; heroic tale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
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