Dictionary Definition
danger
Noun
1 the condition of being susceptible to harm or
injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of
disease" [ant: safety]
2 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" [syn: risk, peril]
3 a cause of pain or injury or loss; "he feared
the dangers of traveling by air"
4 a dangerous place; "He moved out of
danger"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin dominium through Middle English daunger and Anglo-French dangierPronunciation
- /deɪn.ʤə/ (RP)
- ˈdeɪndʒɝ (US)
Noun
- Able to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. See In one's
danger, below.
- "You stand within his danger, do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)
- Difficulty; sparingness.
- Coyness; disdainful behavior.
- A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
- Exposure to liable harm.
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (Hazlitt, Table talk).
- An instance or cause of liable harm.
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).
- Mischief.
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).
Derived terms
Translations
exposure to liable harm
- Czech: nebezpečí
- Danish: fare
- Dutch: gevaar
- Finnish: vaara, uhka
- German: Gefahr, Risiko
- Hungarian: veszély
- Indonesian: bahaya
- Russian: опасность
instance or cause of liable harm
- Czech: nebezpečí
- Danish: fare
- Dutch: gevaar
- Finnish: uhka, vaara
- German: Gefahr, Bedrohung
- Hebrew: סכנה (sakana)
- Indonesian: bahaya
- Kurdish:
- Russian: опасность, угроза
- ttbc Arabic: خطر (khatar)
- ttbc Croatian: opasnost
- ttbc Esperanto: danĝero
- ttbc French: danger (3)
- ttbc Greek: κίνδυνος (kíndinos)
- ttbc Hebrew: לסכן (lesaken) (2)
- ttbc Hindi: खत्रा (khatrā)
- ttbc Icelandic: hætta
- ttbc Ido: danjero
- ttbc Italian: pericolo
- ttbc Japanese: 危ない (abunai)
- ttbc Korean: 위험 (wi-hum)
- ttbc Kurdish: xeter (3), talûke (3), bive (3), gef (3), rîsk (3)
- ttbc Lithuanian: pavojus (3)
- ttbc Mandarin: 危险 (wēi-xiǎn)
- ttbc Norwegian: fare
- ttbc Old English: fǣr
- ttbc Polish: zagrożenie (3)
- ttbc Portuguese: perigo (3)
- ttbc Swedish: fara
Verb
- To claim liability.
- To imperil; to endanger.
- To run the risk.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Danger can refer to either of the following
:
- Being at risk.
- A precautionary statement describing immediate hazard. In industry, danger is a keyword used to denote that an indicated action will result in serious personal injury or harm. It is contrasted with warning, warning is used to denote that an indicated action could result in personal injury or harm. See Signal Words and Colors
Daner-Kaitlyn M. or Joe Jonas
Companies
- Danger, Inc., A software and services company in Palo Alto, California, USA. (most notable product is the T-Mobile Sidekick)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, exigency, hazard, in danger of, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality,
jeopardy, menace, pass, peril, perilousness, precariousness, precipice, risk, riskiness, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, thin
ice, threat, ticklishness, treacherousness,
treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness,
undependability,
unfaithworthiness,
unreliability,
unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness,
unsteadiness,
unsubstantiality,
unsureness, untrustworthiness