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English

Etymology

From Middle English dungeon, dungeoun, dongoun, dungoun, dungun (“a castle keep" also, "a prison cell below the castle; a dungeon; pit; abyss”).

The Middle English word is apparently a merger of Old French donjon (“castle keep”) and Old English dung (“a subterranean chamber; a prison; dungeon”), which supplied the current sense of the word. Old French donjon may itself be a conflation of Vulgar Latin *domnione (from Late Latin *domini?nem, from Latin dominium (“lordship; ownership”) and Frankish *dungij? (“prison, dungeon, underground cellar”). Compare Middle English dung, dunge, dong, donge (“pit of hell; abyss”)

Both the Frankish and Old English words derive from Proto-Germanic *dungij? (“an enclosed space; a vault; bower; treasury”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”), and are related to Old Saxon dung (“underground cellar”), Middle Dutch donc (“underground basement”), Old High German tung (“underground cellar; an underground chamber or apartment for overwintering”) (whence German Tunk (“manure or soil covered basement, underground weaving workshop”)), Old Norse dyngja (“a detached apartment, a lady's bower”); whence Icelandic dyngja (“chamber”)). See also dung, dingle.

The game term has been popularized by Dungeons & Dragons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n.d??n/

Noun

dungeon (plural dungeons)

1. An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
2. (obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
3. (obsolete) A shrewd person.
4. (games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.
5. (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.

Hyponyms

• oubliette

Derived terms

• dungeonable
• instance dungeon
• dungeon crawler
• dungeon master

Translations

Verb

dungeon (third-person singular simple present dungeons, present participle dungeoning, simple past and past participle dungeoned)

1. (transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.

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