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danger

  • /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ UK
  • /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ US
  • /ˈdæɪn.d͡ʒə/ Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -eɪndʒə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

noun dangers

  1. countable, uncountable Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury. There's plenty of danger in the desert.

    Similar: peril

  2. countable, uncountable 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. countable, obsolete, uncountable Mischief. We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
  4. countable, uncountable The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger"). The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
  5. countable, obsolete, uncountable 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?
  6. countable, obsolete, uncountable Liability. Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
  7. countable, obsolete, uncountable Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation. They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.
  8. UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill. Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.

Similar: adventure, danger, distress, harm's way, peril, jeopardy, extremity, threat, menace, hazard · Opposite: safety, secureness, security

verb dangers · dangering · dangered

  1. obsolete To claim liability.
  2. obsolete To imperil; to endanger. The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breeding
  3. obsolete To run the risk.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: peril, risk, jeopardize, hazardous, dangerous, dangerously, dangerousness, endangering, hazard, endanger, endangerment, risky, problem, risk-taking, threaten, venture

noun

Similar: adventure, danger, distress, harm's way, peril, jeopardy, extremity, threat, menace, hazard · Opposite: safety, secureness, security

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noun exposure to likely harm

Españolpeligro, discrimen
한국어위험 wiheom
日本語危険 kiken
中文危險 /危险 wēixiǎn
हिन्दीजोखिम jokhim, ख़तरा xatrā, विपदा vipdā, प्रमाद pramād, संकट saṅkaṭ, विपत्ति vipatti
Kiswahilihatari
Portuguêsperigo
Françaisdanger, péril
DeutschGefahr
Italianopericolo
Ελληνικάκίνδυνος kíndynos
Românăpericol, primejdie
Русскийопа́сность opásnostʹ
Tiếng Việtnguy hiểm
العربيةخَطَر ḵaṭar
עבריתסַכָּנָה sakaná

noun instance or cause of likely harm

Españolpeligro, discrimen
हिन्दीपरेशानी pareśānī
Kiswahilihatari
Portuguêsperigo
Françaisdanger
DeutschGefahr, Bedrohung
Italianopericolo
Ελληνικάκίνδυνος kíndynos
Românăpericol
Русскийопа́сность opásnostʹ, угро́за ugróza
العربيةخَطَر ḵaṭar
עבריתסַכָּנָה sakaná

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@misc{danger_2026,
  title = {danger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/danger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}