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单词 danger
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danger

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”).[1] Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

  1. Exposure to likely harm; peril.
    There's plenty of danger in the desert.
    • 1821, William Hazlitt, “Essay IX. The Indian Jugglers.”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume I, London: John Warren, […], OCLC 3363207, page 187:
      Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
  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.
    • 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 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
      We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
  4. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
    The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
  5. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
    • 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 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 180:
      You stand within his danger, do you not?
    • 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 1180784885:
      Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
  6. (obsolete) Liability.
    • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew ]:
      Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
    • 1500, Melusine:
      They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
    • 1570, A. Dalaber, J. Foxe Actes & Monuments:
      I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.
    • 1652, John Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase:
      I shall make danger, sure.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:danger

Derived terms

  • a danger foreseen is half avoided
  • danger area
  • danger in delay
  • danger is one's middle name
  • danger money
  • danger noodle
  • danger pay
  • danger-signal
  • danger signal
  • danger space
  • danger zone
  • gap of danger
  • in danger
  • kicking in danger
  • signal passed at danger
  • stranger danger

Translations

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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.
    • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
      The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding
  3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:danger.
  • dangerous
  • at danger
  • SPAD
  • dungeon
  • domain
  • dame
  • endanger

References

  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “danger”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

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/
  • Audio(file)

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
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