different between danger vs grief

English

Etymology

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domin?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English fr?cennes.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?n.d??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?de?nd??/
• Hyphenation: dan?ger
• Rhymes: -e?nd??(?)

Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
   • 1821-1822, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk

     Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.

2. An instance or cause of likely harm.
   • September 1, 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech

     Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

3. (obsolete) Mischief.
4. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

5. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson More's Utopia

     Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.

6. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
8. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

   • With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

• danger signal
• kicking in danger

Translations

Verb

danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:danger.

Related terms

• dangerous
• at danger
• SPAD
• dungeon
• domain
• dame
• endanger

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

French

Etymology

From Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *domni?rium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.?e/

Noun

danger m (plural dangers)

1. danger
2. jeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)

Derived terms

• danger public
• dangereux
• en danger
• hors de danger
• non-assistance à personne en danger

Further reading

• “danger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• de rang, grande

English

Etymology

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)

1. Suffering, hardship. [from early 13th c.]
2. Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
3. (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.

Derived terms

• give someone grief

Translations

Verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

1. (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. [from late 1990s]

Usage notes

• This verb is most commonly found in the gerund-participle griefing and the derived noun griefer.

Related terms

• grievance
• grieve
• grievous

Further reading

• grief on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• griefer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• grief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• grief in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• grief at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch grief, from Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rif/
• Hyphenation: grief
• Rhymes: -if

Noun

grief f (plural grieven, diminutive griefje n)

1. (chiefly in the plural) grievance, complaint, bone to pick, issue

Derived terms

• grieven

French

Etymology

From Old French grief, from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us. Doublet of grave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.j?f/

Adjective

grief (feminine singular griève, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grièves)

1. (archaic, literary) grievous

Derived terms

• grièvement

Noun

grief m (plural griefs)

1. complaint
2. grief
3. grievance (formal complaint filed with an authority)

Further reading

• “grief” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• figer

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grevis, from Latin gravis.

Adjective

grief m (feminine singular grieva, masculine plural griefs, feminine plural grieves)

1. arduous
2. difficult
3. steep

Old French

Alternative forms

• gref (typically Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Probably from the verb grever, or from Vulgar Latin grevis (influenced by its antonym, levis), from Latin gravis.

Noun

grief m (oblique plural griés, nominative singular griés, nominative plural grief)

1. pain; anguish; suffering

Descendants

• French: grief
• ? Middle Dutch: grief
  • Dutch: grief
• ? Middle English: greef, gref
  • English: grief

Adjective

grief m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grieve)

1. sad

Descendants

• French: grief (archaic, literary)