danger

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 *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

  1. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
    "You stand within his danger, do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)
    • Robynson (More's Utopia)
      Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
  2. (obsolete) Liability.
    • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
      Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  3. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
  4. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
  5. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
  6. Exposure to liable harm.
    "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).
  7. An instance or cause of liable harm.
    "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).
  8. Mischief.
    "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).
  9. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal. (usually used in the phrase "at danger")
    "The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide."

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

Translations

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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 of use of this term, see Citations:danger.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃.ʒe/
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Noun

danger m (plural dangers)

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

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Anagrams

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