danger

English

Etymology

Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (influenced by Old French dam (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin * domniārium "authority, power" from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Middle English pliht, plight (“danger”) (from Old English pliht (“danger, peril, risk”), compare Old English plēon (“to risk”)), Middle English frese (“danger, fear”) (from or akin to Old Saxon frēsa "peril, fear"), Middle English wathe (“peril, hurt”) (from Old Norse vāði (“peril, hurt”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /deɪn.dʒə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /deIn.dZ@(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈdeɪndʒɚ/, SAMPA: /"deIndZ@`/

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Noun

danger (plural dangers)

1. (obsolete) 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. (obsolete) Liability.
   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

     Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

3. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
4. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
5. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
6. Exposure to liable harm.

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

7. 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. Mischief.

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

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:danger

Derived terms

• kicking in danger

Translations

exposure to liable harm

Arabic: خَطَر (ar) (khaTar) m. Armenian: վտանգ (hy) (vtang) Bulgarian: опасност (bg) f. Catalan: perill Chinese: Mandarin: 危险 (zh) (wēixiǎn) Croatian: opasnost (hr) f. Czech: nebezpečí (cs) n. Danish: fare (da) c. Dutch: gevaar (nl) n. Esperanto: danĝero (eo) Finnish: vaara (fi), uhka (fi) French: danger (fr) m. German: Gefahr (de) f., Risiko (de) n. Greek: κίνδυνος (el) (kíndinos) m. Haitian Creole: danje Hebrew: סכנה (he) (sakaná) f.

Hungarian: veszély (hu) Indonesian: bahaya (id) Irish: contúirt (ga) f., dainséar (ga) m. Italian: pericolo (it) m. Polish: niebezpieczeństwo (pl) n. Portuguese: perigo (pt) m. Romanian: pericol (ro), primejdie (ro) f. Russian: опасность (ru) (opásnost') f. Scottish Gaelic: cunnart (gd) m. Slovak: nebezpečie n. Spanish: peligro (es) m. Swahili: hatari (sw) Swedish: fara (sv) c. Turkish: tehlike (tr) Vietnamese: nguy hiểm (vi) Welsh: perygl (cy) m. Persian: خطر (khatar)

instance or cause of liable harm

Arabic: خَطَر (ar) (khaTar) m. Armenian: վտանգ (hy) (vtang), սպառնալիք (hy) (spaṙnalik’) Bulgarian: заплаха (bg) f. Croatian: opasnost (hr) f. Czech: nebezpečí (cs) n. Danish: fare (da) c. Dutch: gevaar (nl) n., bedreiging (nl) f. Finnish: uhka (fi), vaara (fi) French: danger (fr) m. German: Gefahr (de) f., Bedrohung (de) f. Greek: κίνδυνος (el) (kíndinos) m.

Haitian Creole: danje Hebrew: סכנה (sakana) f. Indonesian: bahaya (id) Irish: contúirt (ga) f., dainséar (ga) m. Italian: pericolo (it) m. Kurdish: په‌رێشان Polish: zagrożenie (pl) n. Russian: опасность (ru) (opásnost') f., угроза (ru) (ugróza) f. Scottish Gaelic: cunnart (gd) m. Swahili: hatari (sw) Swedish: fara (sv) c.

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Serbo-Croatian: opasnost French: danger m. (3) Hebrew: לסכן (lesaken) (2) Hindi: खत्रा (khatrā) Icelandic: hætta Ido: danjero

Japanese: 危ない (abunai) Korean: 위험 (wi-hum) Kurdish: xeter f. (3), talûke f. (3), bive f. (3), gef f. (3), rîsk f. (3) Lithuanian: pavojus m. (3) Mandarin: 危险 (wēi-xiǎn) Norwegian: fare Old English: fǣr m. Portuguese: perigo m. (3) Spanish: peligro m. (3)

Verb

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

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

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Related terms

• dungeon
• domain
• dame

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• gander
• garden
• grande
• ranged

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French

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Noun

danger m. (plural dangers)

1. danger
2. jeopardy (danger of loss, harm, or failure)

Derived terms

• dangereux

Anagrams

• de rang, grande