danger

dan·ger

noun

Danger is defined as a possibility that something harmful or unpleasant will happen, or a person or thing that causes harm.

When you are alone in a bad neighborhood late at night, this is an example of a time when you are in danger.
A drunk driver is an example of a danger.

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danger

liability to injury, damage, loss, or pain; peril: to live in constant danger
a thing that may cause injury, pain, etc.
Obs. power of a lord, esp. to harm

Origin of danger

Middle English daunger, power, domination, arrogance from Old French danger, absolute power of an overlord from Vulgar Latin an unverified form dominarium from Classical Latin dominium, lordship from dominus, a master: see dominate

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danger

noun

Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.
A source or an instance of risk or peril.
Obsolete Power, especially power to harm.

Origin of danger

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

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Noun

(plural dangers)

Exposure to liable harm.
"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).
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).
Mischief.
"We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).

Verb

(third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.

Anagrams

gander, garden, grande, ranged

Origin

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”).

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