English Explanatory Dictionary

danger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
  2. An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
  3. Mischief.
  4. The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
  5. Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
  6. Liability.
  7. Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
  8. A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
verb
  1. To claim liability.
  2. To imperil; to endanger.
  3. To run the risk.

Pronunciation

/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ en-us-danger.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-danger.wav /ˈdæ̝ɪn.d͡ʒə/

Word forms

danger dangers dangering dangered

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”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Synonyms

adventure danger distress harm's way peril jeopardy threat menace hazard

Antonyms

safety secureness security

Related words

chanciness precariousness precarity instability plight risk riskiness threateningness uncertainty unstableness dangerous endanger at danger dame domain dungeon SPAD

Derived words

a danger foreseen is half avoided danger area danger close dangerful danger in delay danger is one's middle name dangerless dangerman danger money danger music danger noodle danger pay danger-signal danger signal dangersome danger space danger triangle danger triangle of the face danger wank danger zone gap of danger indanger in danger kicking in danger signal passed at danger stranger danger
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