danger
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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] Displaced native Old English frēcennes.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdeɪndʒɚ/
- Hyphenation: dan‧ger
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
NounEdit
danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)
- Exposure to likely harm; peril.
- There's plenty of danger in the desert.
- 1821-1822, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
- 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.
- September 1, 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], column xvii:
- We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
- (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
- The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
- (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 180:
- You stand within his danger, do you not?
- 1551, Ralph Robinson More's Utopia
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- (obsolete) Liability.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, lines 989-991, column 1:
- That euerych of yon ſhall go where him lyſt / Freely, wythout randſome or daungere
- That every one of you shall go where go where he desires / Freely, without randsome or difficulty
- (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, lines 521-24:
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:danger
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
exposure to likely harm
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instance or cause of liable harm
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VerbEdit
danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)
- (obsolete) To claim liability.
- (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding
- (obsolete) To run the risk.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:danger.
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “danger”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Oxford English Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
danger m (plural dangers)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “danger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).