danger

English Online Dictionary. What means danger‎? What does danger mean?

English

Etymology

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 *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
• Hyphenation: dan‧ger
• Rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
2. An instance or cause of likely harm.
   • 1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech

     Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

3. (obsolete) Mischief.
4. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

5. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
6. (obsolete) Liability.
7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
8. (UK, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

Translations

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 quotations using this term, see Citations:danger.

Related terms

• dangerous
• at danger
• SPAD
• dungeon
• domain
• dame
• endanger

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Gander, Garden, gander, garden, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

French

Etymology

Inherited 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.ʒe/

Noun

danger m (plural dangers)

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

Derived terms

• danger public
• dangereux
• en danger
• hors de danger
• non-assistance à personne en danger

Descendants

• → Esperanto: danĝero

Further reading

• “danger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• de rang, grande