danger

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]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪndʒɚ/
• Hyphenation: dan‧ger

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
   • William Hazlitt, Table Talk

     Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.

2. 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.

3. (obsolete) Mischief.
   • Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17

     We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.

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8. (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.

• See also Thesaurus:danger

• danger signal
• kicking in danger

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.

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3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:danger.

• dangerous
• at danger
• SPAD
• dungeon
• domain
• dame
• endanger

• Oxford English Dictionary

• Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

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”).

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.ʒe/

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danger m (plural dangers)

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

• dangereux

• “danger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• de rang, grande