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danger

noun
/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/UK/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/US/ˈdæ̝ɪn.d͡ʒə/

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.

  1. derived from dominus
  2. derived from *dominārium✻
  3. derived from dangier
  4. derived from daunger

Definitions

  1. Exposure to likely harm

    Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.

    • 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.

  2. An instance or cause of likely serious 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. Mischief.

    • We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

      • The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

    2. Ability to harm

      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?
      • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.

    3. Liability.

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

    4. Difficulty

      Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

      • 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.

    5. A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.

      • 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"

    6. To claim liability.

    7. To imperil

      To imperil; to endanger.

      • The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding

    8. To run the risk.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at danger. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at danger. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at danger

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA