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]
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.
- William Hazlitt, Table Talk
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
- William Hazlitt, Table Talk
- An instance or cause of likely harm.
- Times, 5 Sept. 3/2)
- Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
- Times, 5 Sept. 3/2)
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17
- We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17
- (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.
- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180
- You stand within his danger, do you not?
- Robynson (More's Utopia)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath," 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.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath," 521-24)
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To run the risk.
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:danger.
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “danger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).