dungeon 
dun·geon (dun′jən)
noun
- donjon
- a dark underground cell, vault, or prison
Etymology: ME dongoun < OFr donjon, prob. < Frank *dungjo, earth-covered cellar for storing fruits: see dung
transitive verb
Rare to confine in a dungeon
Preposition: of
- castle: The Demon Castle sets the player down in the dungeons of a castle.
Converse of object
- explore: Explore the dungeons carved out of the rock beneath the North Gate, or just relax on the lawns of the Ladies Parlor.
- enter: Enter any dungeon where you can kill monsters with just a few hits.
- include: It includes an example dungeon in which you have to fight all kinds of dragons, vampires and elementals and pick up potions.
- have: Although they seem to have quite extensive dungeons, I have been placed in what I must assume is the dead son's room.
Adjective modifier
- gloomy: The gloomy dungeons are also populated by the ghosts of the wretches whose spare parts have been used to manufacture the monster.
- dark: You will release those who sit in dark dungeons.
- medieval: Of cathedral-like dimensions, used in their time as a refuge, a medieval dungeon and church, and smugglers ' hideout.
- underground: The tower retains rare medieval features groin vaulting, timber roof structure, interior well and an underground dungeon.
- deep: Deep dungeon possibly a race of patients with cluster.
- new: I'm in a new third dungeon here: Shackles on shackles who can wear?
Modifies a noun
- crawl: Overall, a fine piece of work, maintaining the traditions of the classic dungeon crawl into the 21st century!
- master: Dungeon Keeper Strategy game You are the dungeon master.
- dark: For now into this prison strong, In fetters I do lie, Confined into a dungeon dark, By men condemned to die.
- heart: Then you can get some creatures ready to defend your precious dungeon heart.
- wall: I've been experimenting with the camera and dungeon walls, and also implemented a particle system.
- door: All panting, the three kids pushed their to the dungeon door.
Noun used with modifier
- multi-user: The history of multi-user dungeons The history of role-playing via computer goes back a surprisingly long way.
- castle: Here, even the castle dungeon has been turned into a book store!
- bottle: At the end of January 1546 Beaton had him transferred to the bottle dungeon in St Andrew's Castle.
The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescence out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening rayö I woke, the dungeon flamed with light, My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberte¤ de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du de¤ sespoir. My voice will be the voice of those who suffer and have no voice. My voice, the freedom of those weakened in the dungeon of despair.
We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Thou art become (O worst imprisonment!) The Dungeon of thy self.
Il tournait dans son de¤ sir, comme un prisonnier dans son cachot. He was circling in his desire, like a prisoner in his dungeon.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Browse dictionary entries near dungeon
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