What does danger mean?

Definitions for danger
ˈdeɪn dʒərdan·ger

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dangernoun

    the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury

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

  2. risk, peril, dangernoun

    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. dangernoun

    a cause of pain or injury or loss

    "he feared the dangers of traveling by air"

  4. dangernoun

    a dangerous place

    "He moved out of danger"

Wiktionary

  1. dangernoun

    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. dangernoun

    Liability.

  3. dangernoun

    Difficulty; sparingness.

  4. dangernoun

    Coyness; disdainful behavior.

  5. dangernoun

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

  6. dangernoun

    Exposure to liable harm.

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

  7. dangernoun

    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. dangernoun

    Mischief.

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

  9. dangerverb

    To claim liability.

  10. dangerverb

    To imperil; to endanger.

  11. dangerverb

    To run the risk.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DANGERnoun

    Risque; hazard; peril.

    Etymology: danger, Fr. of uncertain derivation. Stephen Skinner derives it from damnum, Gilles Ménage from angaria, John Minsheu from δανος, death, to which Franciscus Junius seems inclined.

    They that sail on the sea, tell of the danger. Ecclus. xliii. 24.

    Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts, x. 27.

    I dare pawn down my life for him, that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no other pretence of danger. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    More danger now from man alone we find,
    Than from the rocks, the billows, and the wind. Edmund Waller.

  2. To Dangerverb

    To put in hazard; to endanger.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Pompey’s son stands up
    For the main soldier; whose quality going on,
    The sides o’ th’ world may danger. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopat.

Wikipedia

  1. Danger

    Danger is a single by Australian rock band AC/DC, from the album Fly on the Wall released in 1985. It was written by Brian Johnson, Angus Young, and Malcolm Young. In most territories, the single's b-side was "Back in Business", but in Australia and New Zealand, "Hell or High Water" was featured.

ChatGPT

  1. danger

    Danger is a condition or situation that poses a genuine threat or risk to one's safety, security, well-being, or survival. It can range from immediate physical harm, such as from accidents or violence, to any potential harm or loss over time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dangernoun

    authority; jurisdiction; control

  2. Dangernoun

    power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty

  3. Dangernoun

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

  4. Dangernoun

    difficulty; sparingness

  5. Dangernoun

    coyness; disdainful behavior

  6. Dangerverb

    to endanger

Wikidata

  1. Danger

    Danger, Inc. was a company specializing in hardware design, software, and services for mobile computing devices. Its most notable product was the T-Mobile Sidekick, which was the first smartphone to capture the attention of pop culture celebrities and teenagers. The Sidekick was a pioneer in client-server smartphones and created the App marketplace, later popularized by Android and iOS. Danger was acquired by Microsoft on 11 February 2008, for a price rumored to be around $500 million. The company was originally started by former Apple Inc., WebTV and Philips employees Andy Rubin, Joe Britt, and Matt Hershenson. Co-founder Andy Rubin left in 2003 to create the company Android, which was later acquired by Google. After the Microsoft acquisition, the former Danger staff were absorbed into the Mobile Communications Business of the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division, where they worked on a future mobile phone platform known as "Project Pink" which would eventually be released as Kin. Because of poor sales, production was ceased just a few weeks after its release. The Kin development team was folded into the Windows Phone team, and Microsoft stopped promoting the devices.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Danger

    dān′jėr, n. peril, hazard, or risk: insecurity: (obs.) power.—v.t. (Shak.) to endanger.—adj. Dan′gerous, full of danger: unsafe: insecure.—adv. Dan′gerously.—ns. Dan′gerousness; Dan′ger-sig′nal. [O. Fr. dangier, absolute power (of a feudal lord), hence power to hurt.—Low L. dominium, feudal authority—L. dominus, a lord. See Dungeon.]

CrunchBase

  1. Danger

    Danger provided the software platform and hardware behind T-Mobile’s Sidekick phone. In its prime, the youth-friendly, messaging-focused phone handled over 4,000 messages and 400 pageviews per user per month, according to figures quoted on Danger’s website as of February 2008.Microsoft acquired Danger in 2008, and the company made headlines in 2009 when an issue with its servers caused users to lose all data not stored locally.On May 31, 2011, T-Mobile and Microsoft discontinued the cloud data service to all Danger-powered Sidekick devices.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. danger

    Perils and hazard of the sea. Any rock or shoal which interferes with navigation.

Suggested Resources

  1. danger

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DANGER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Danger is ranked #46404 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Danger surname appeared 459 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Danger.

    62.9% or 289 total occurrences were White.
    20% or 92 total occurrences were Black.
    13% or 60 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'danger' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1733

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'danger' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2124

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'danger' in Nouns Frequency: #614

Anagrams for danger »

  1. gander

  2. garden

  3. grande

  4. ranged

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of danger in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of danger in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of danger in a Sentence

  1. Muhtarama Amin:

    All women working in government are in great danger. And the situation is especially bad for provincial council members.

  2. Marta Mares:

    We want to support NYPD officers because now we can see what danger they are in, especially under Mayor de Blasio.

  3. Saul David Alinsky:

    When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

  4. Thornton Wilder:

    I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

  5. State John Kerry on Saturday:

    I believe that is a danger for Israel.

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