From Middle English daunger, from Anglo-Norman - dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium from Latin dominus.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/

danger

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 ↗, 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 ↗, [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 ↗, [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 ↗:

     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 ↗, Matthew:

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

7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

• See also Thesaurus:danger

• French: danger, péril
• German: Gefahr
• Italian: pericolo
• Portuguese: perigo
• Russian: опа́сность
• Spanish: peligro

• French: danger
• German: Gefahr, Bedrohung
• Italian: pericolo
• Portuguese: perigo
• Russian: опа́сность

danger (dangers, present participle dangering; simple past and past participle dangered)

1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), 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 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:

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

3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

• dangerous
• at danger
• SPAD
• dungeon
• domain
• dame
• endanger