liability or exposure to harm or injury; risk; peril.
an instance or cause of peril; menace.
Obsolete. power; jurisdiction; domain.
Origin of danger
1175–1225; Middle English da(u)nger<Anglo-French; Old French dangier, alteration of dongier (by influence of damdamage) <Vulgar Latin *domniārium, equivalent to Latin domini(um) dominion + -ārium, neuter of -ārius-ary
synonym study for danger
1. Danger,hazard,peril,jeopardy imply harm that one may encounter. Danger is the general word for liability to all kinds of injury or evil consequences, either near at hand and certain, or remote and doubtful: to be in danger of being killed.Hazard suggests a danger that one can foresee but cannot avoid: A mountain climber is exposed to many hazards.Peril usually denotes great and imminent danger: The passengers on the disabled ship were in great peril.Jeopardy, a less common word, has essentially the same meaning as peril, but emphasizes exposure to the chances of a situation: To save his friend he put his life in jeopardy.
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When the danger was passed by Anastasius pursued fresh intrigues.
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If now the excess is on the side of the Franco-Russian alliance, the danger is still the same.
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Besides, I should have gone to that unhappy man all the same as I thought him in danger of death.'
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British Dictionary definitions for danger
danger
/ (ˈdeɪndʒə) /
noun
the state of being vulnerable to injury, loss, or evil; risk
a person or thing that may cause injury, pain, etc
obsoletepower
in danger ofliable to
on the danger listcritically ill in hospital
Derived forms of danger
dangerless, adjective
Word Origin for danger
C13: daunger power, hence power to inflict injury, from Old French dongier (from Latin dominium ownership) blended with Old French dam injury, from Latin damnum