Danger Definition

dānjər
dangers
noun
dangers
Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.
American Heritage
Liability to injury, damage, loss, or pain; peril.
To live in constant danger.
Webster's New World
A thing that may cause injury, pain, etc.
Webster's New World
Power of a lord, esp. to harm.
Webster's New World
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).
Wiktionary
verb
(obsolete) To claim liability.
Wiktionary

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.

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(obsolete) To run the risk.
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Other Word Forms of Danger

Noun

Singular:
danger
Plural:
dangers

Origin of 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 *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English daunger power, dominion, peril from Old French dangier from Vulgar Latin dominiārium authority, power from Latin dominium sovereignty from dominus lord, master dem- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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