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Definitions for dangerˈdeɪn dʒər

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

dan•ger*ˈdeɪn dʒər(n.)

  1. liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.

  2. an instance or cause of peril; menace.

  3. Obs. power; jurisdiction; domain.

* Syn: danger , hazard , peril imply harm that one may encounter. danger is the general word for liability to injury or harm, either near at hand and certain, or remote and doubtful: to be in danger of being killed. hazard suggests a danger that one can often foresee but cannot avoid: A mountain climber is exposed to many hazards. peril usu. denotes great and imminent danger: The passengers on the disabled ship were in great peril.

Origin of danger:

1175–1225; < OF dangier, alter. of dongier (by influence of damdamage ) < VL *domniārium= L domini(um)dominion+-ārium, neut. of -ārius -ary

Princeton's WordNet

  1. danger(noun)

    the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury

    "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease"

  2. risk, peril, danger(noun)

    a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury

    "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing"

  3. danger(noun)

    a cause of pain or injury or loss

    "he feared the dangers of traveling by air"

  4. danger(noun)

    a dangerous place

    "He moved out of danger"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. danger(noun)ˈdeɪn dʒər

    a situation in which physical harm could occur

    Danger! Falling Rocks.; Doctors say her life is in danger.; the dangers of living in the wilderness; glad to be out of danger

  2. dangerˈdeɪn dʒər

    the possibility of problems

    the danger that people will misunderstand; She was in danger of losing all her money.

  3. dangerˈdeɪn dʒər

    sb or sth that can cause harm

    Smoking is a danger to your health.; criminals who are dangers to society

Wiktionary

  1. danger(Noun)

    Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.

    "You stand within his danger, do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)

  2. danger(Noun)

    Liability.

  3. danger(Noun)

    Difficulty; sparingness.

  4. danger(Noun)

    Coyness; disdainful behavior.

  5. danger(Noun)

    A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.

  6. danger(Noun)

    Exposure to liable harm.

    "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).

  7. danger(Noun)

    An instance or cause of liable harm.

    "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).

  8. danger(Noun)

    Mischief.

    "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).

  9. danger(Verb)

    To claim liability.

  10. danger(Verb)

    To imperil; to endanger.

  11. danger(Verb)

    To run the risk.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Danger(noun)

    authority; jurisdiction; control

  2. Danger(noun)

    power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty

  3. Danger(noun)

    exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity

  4. Danger(noun)

    difficulty; sparingness

  5. Danger(noun)

    coyness; disdainful behavior

  6. Danger(verb)

    to endanger

Translations for danger

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

danger(noun)

something that may cause harm or injury

The canal is a danger to children.

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