danger
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)dangers
- the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury“you are in no danger”“there was widespread danger of disease”Opposite safetyType of condition, statusKinds vulnerability, hazardousness, insecurity, clear and present danger, riskiness
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury“he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime”“there was a danger he would do the wrong thing”Synonyms: riskperilType of ventureKinds chance, gamble, crapshoot
- a cause of pain or injury or loss“he feared the dangers of traveling by air”Type of causal agent, causeKinds menace, hazard, powder keg
- a dangerous place“He moved out of danger”Type of area, country
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Translations
Noun exposure to likely harm
- Spanish
- peligro
- French
- danger
- German
- Gefahr
- Italian
- pericolo
- Portuguese
- perigo
- Turkish
- tehlike
- Russian
- опа́сность opásnostʹ
- Arabic
- خَطَر ḵaṭar
- Chinese
- 危险 wēixiǎn
- Japanese
- 危険 kiken
29 more languages
- Dutch
- gevaar
- Polish
- niebezpieczeństwo
- Swedish
- fara
- Greek
- κίνδυνος kíndynos
- Korean
- 위험 wiheom
- Indonesian
- bahaya
- Vietnamese
- nguy hiểm
- Hungarian
- veszély
- Portuguese (PT)
- perigo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 危險 wēixiǎn
- Albanian
- rrezik
- Catalan
- perill
- Czech
- nebezpečí
- Danish
- fare
- Esperanto
- danĝero
- Estonian
- hädaoht
- Finnish
- vaara
- Georgian
- საფრთხე saprtxe
- Hebrew
- סַכָּנָה sakaná
- Icelandic
- hætta
- Kurdish
- metirsî
- Latvian
- briesmas
- Lithuanian
- pavojus
- Norwegian
- fare
- Romanian
- primejdie
- Scottish Gaelic
- cunnart
- Serbo-Croatian
- opasnost
- Swahili
- hatari
- Welsh
- perygl
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.
1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. obsolete
In dangerhad he... the young girls.— Geoffrey Chaucer
2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. obsolete See In one's danger, below.
You stand within his danger, do you not?— William Shakespeare
Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.— Raphe Robynson
3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
4. Difficulty; sparingness. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. obsolete This sense is retained in the proverb, “Out of debt out of danger.”
Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.— Raphe Robynson
— To do danger, to cause danger. obsolete William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. — Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.
To endanger. obsolete William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
The Devil's Dictionary
A savage beast which, when it sleeps, Man girds at and despises, But takes himself away by leaps And bounds when it arises. Ambat Delaso