Danger definition
Liability to injury, damage, loss, or pain; peril.
To live in constant danger.
noun
A source or an instance of risk or peril.
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(obsolete) Power, especially power to harm.
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A thing that may cause injury, pain, etc.
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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Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.
noun
(obs.) Power of a lord, esp. to harm.
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Exposure to liable harm.
"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).
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(obsolete) To claim liability.
verb
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Mischief.
"We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).
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(obsolete) To run the risk.
verb
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).
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
danger
Plural:
dangersOrigin 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 dem- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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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