danger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: dangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There's plenty of danger in the desert.
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye.
The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly.
Danger is his business.
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.
Huntingdon's ferocity makes the reaction of staff all the more brave. To move towards danger when others are fleeing is the definition of bravery in my book. To place yourself in danger to protect others.
gloss: An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: Mischief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
gloss: The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
gloss: Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: You stand within his danger, do you not?
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
gloss: Liability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
gloss: Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
I shall make danger, sure.
gloss: A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.
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"
Synonyms: adventure
danger
distress
harm's way
peril
jeopardy
threat
menace
hazard
Antonyms: safety
secureness
security
Related words: chanciness
precariousness
precarity
instability
plight
risk
riskiness
threateningness
uncertainty
unstableness
dangerous
endanger
Derived words: 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
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