danger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -eɪndʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dangers
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.
Senses: examples: text: There's plenty of danger in the desert.
text: Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
ref: 1821, William Hazlitt, “Essay IX. The Indian Jugglers.”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume I, London: John Warren, […], →OCLC, page 187:
text: The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye.
The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly.
Danger is his business.
ref: 1966, “Cool McCool (theme song)”, Bernie Green (music) (Cool McCool (television series)), performed by Bob McFadden:
text: We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: Exposure to likely harm; peril.
examples: 1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech
Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
glosses: An instance or cause of likely harm.
examples: text: We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Mischief.
examples: text: The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
qualifier: mainly outside US
glosses: The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
examples: text: You stand within his danger, do you not?
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 180:
text: Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
examples: text: Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: Liability.
examples: text: They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
ref: 1500, Melusine:
text: I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
ref: 1570, A. Dalaber, J. Foxe Actes & Monuments:
text: I shall make danger, sure.
ref: 1652, John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase:
glosses: Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
examples: text: Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.
ref: 2017 July 28, Gary Ogden, “Ridiculous food combinations that are actually really tasty”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Why did the chicken cross the road?
"To try and get away from you, you absolute danger. I've heard all about you posh boy Etonians and farmyard animals"
ref: 2019 July 31, Oonagh Keating, quoting Stephen Patten, “We asked you to caption a photo of Boris Johnson holding a chicken – our 19 favourites”, in The Poke:
glosses: A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
Synonyms: word: adventure
word: danger
word: distress
word: harm's way
word: peril
word: plight
word: jeopardy
word: risk
word: threat
word: menace
word: hazard
Derived terms: a danger foreseen is half avoided
danger area
danger close
dangerful
danger in delay
danger is one's middle name
dangerless
dangerman
danger money
danger music
danger noodle
danger pay
danger-signal
danger signal
dangersome
danger space
danger triangle
danger triangle of the face
danger wank
danger zone
gap of danger
indanger
in danger
kicking in danger
signal passed at danger
stranger danger
Related terms: word: dangerous
word: endanger