danger
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
danger
- Exposure to likely harm; peril.
, Table Talk - Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
- An instance or cause of likely harm.
, Times, 5 Sept. 3/2) - Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i], column xvii:
- We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
- c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i], page 180 ↗:
- You stand within his danger, do you not?
(More's Utopia) - Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- (obsolete) Liability.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
- (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
- (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
, The Canterbury Tales, "The Wife of Bath," 521-24) - With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.
- See also Thesaurus:danger
- French: danger
- German: Gefahr, Risiko
- Italian: pericolo
- Portuguese: perigo
- Russian: опа́сность
- Spanish: peligro
danger (dangers, present participle dangering; past and past participle dangered)
- (obsolete) To claim liability.
- (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
- (obsolete) To run the risk.
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