danger
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dʒər noun
1.
liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
2.
an instance or cause of peril; menace.
3.
Obsolete. power; jurisdiction; domain.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English da(u)nger < Anglo-French; Old French dangier, alteration of dongier (by influence of dam damage) < Vulgar Latin *domniārium, equivalent to Latin domini(um) dominion + -ārium, neuter of -ārius -ary
1175–1225; Middle English da(u)nger < Anglo-French; Old French dangier, alteration of dongier (by influence of dam damage) < Vulgar Latin *domniārium, equivalent to Latin domini(um) dominion + -ārium, neuter of -ārius -ary
Related forms
dan·ger·less, adjective
su·per·dan·ger, noun
Synonyms
1. Danger, hazard, peril, jeopardy imply harm that one may encounter. Danger is the general word for liability to all kinds of injury or evil consequences, either near at hand and certain, or remote and doubtful: to be in danger of being killed. Hazard suggests a danger that one can foresee but cannot avoid: A mountain climber is exposed to many hazards. Peril usually denotes great and imminent danger: The passengers on the disabled ship were in great peril. Jeopardy a less common word, has essentially the same meaning as peril but emphasizes exposure to the chances of a situation: To save his friend he put his life in jeopardy.
1. Danger, hazard, peril, jeopardy imply harm that one may encounter. Danger is the general word for liability to all kinds of injury or evil consequences, either near at hand and certain, or remote and doubtful: to be in danger of being killed. Hazard suggests a danger that one can foresee but cannot avoid: A mountain climber is exposed to many hazards. Peril usually denotes great and imminent danger: The passengers on the disabled ship were in great peril. Jeopardy a less common word, has essentially the same meaning as peril but emphasizes exposure to the chances of a situation: To save his friend he put his life in jeopardy.
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danger (ˈdeɪndʒə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the state of being vulnerable to injury, loss, or evil; risk |
| 2. | a person or thing that may cause injury, pain, etc |
| 3. | obsolete power |
| 4. | in danger of liable to |
| 5. | on the danger list critically ill in hospital |
| [C13: daunger power, hence power to inflict injury, from Old French dongier (from Latin dominium ownership) blended with Old French dam injury, from Latin damnum] | |
| 'dangerless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
dang
1793, euphemism for damn.
danger
early 13c., "power of a lord or master, jurisdiction," from Anglo-Fr. daunger, O.Fr. dangier "power to harm, mastery," alteration (due to assoc. with damnum) of dongier, from V.L. *dominarium "power of a lord," from L. dominus "lord, master" (see domain). Modern sense of
"risk, peril" (from being in the control of someone or something else) evolved first in French and was in English late 14c. Replaced O.E. pleoh; in early M.E. this sense is found in peril.
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Example sentences
All three of these situation increase the danger of food poisonings.
Muller misrepresented the facts about nuclear radiation by claiming that such radiation posed a grave danger at any dose.
And, since they have a theory, there is always the danger of only noticing the things that help to prove it and ignoring the rest.
The danger of being crushed by heavy machinery was ever present.
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