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danger

Syllables: dan·gerUK/ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə//ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒɚ/

danger noun: exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.

danger: exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury
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Noun

danger (countable and uncountable, plural dangers)

  1. Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
    • There's plenty of danger in the desert.
    • Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.1821, William Hazlitt, “Essay IX. The Indian Jugglers.”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume I, London: John Warren, […], →OCLC, page 187
    Synonyms:
    peril
  2. An instance or cause of likely serious 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.
    • We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.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]...
  4. (mainly outside US) 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.
    • You stand within his danger, do you not?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]...
    • Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.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...
  6. (obsolete) Liability.
    • Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew
  7. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
    • They of Coloyne made grete daunger to lete passe the oost thrughe the Cite at brydge.1500, Melusine
    • I made daunger of it a while at first, but afterward beyng persuaded by them..I promised to do as they would haue me.1570, A. Dalaber, J. Foxe Actes & Monuments
  8. (UK, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
    • Pineapple and pizza. ONLY JOKING YOU FUCKING DANGER.2017 July 28, Gary Ogden, “Ridiculous food combinations that are actually really tasty”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • Why did the chicken cross the road?
      "To try and get away from you, you absolute danger. I've heard all about you posh boy Etonians and farmyard animals"2019 July 31, Oonagh Keating, quoting Stephen Patten, “We asked you to caption a photo of Boris Johnson holding a chicken – our 19 favourites”, in The Poke

Verb

danger (third-person singular simple present dangers, present participle dangering, simple past and past participle dangered)

  1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
  2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
    • The sides o'th' world may danger. Much is breedingc. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  3. (obsolete) To run the risk.

danger meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

danger in Hindi

exposure to likely harm
जोखिम jokhim, ख़तरा xatrā, विपदा vipdā, प्रमाद pramād, संकट saṅkaṭ, विपत्ति vipatti
instance or cause of likely harm
परेशानी pareśānī

danger in Tamil

exposure to likely harm
அபாயம் apāyam, ஆபத்து āpattu

danger in Marathi

danger, risk, hazard
धोका dhokā

danger in Urdu

exposure to likely harm
خَطْرَہ xatra, جوکِھم jokhim
More languagesFewer languages
danger in Bengali
বিপদ bipod
danger in Telugu
ప్రమాదము pramādamu
danger in Malayalam
ആപത്ത് āpattŭ, അപായം apāyaṁ
danger in Kannada
ಕುತ್ತ kutta
danger in Punjabi
ਖ਼ਤਰਾ xatarā, ਜੋਖੋਂ jokhõ
danger in Gujarati
ખતરો
danger in Odia
ବିପଦ
danger in Sanskrit
त्यजस् tyajas
danger in Sinhala
අන්ත්රාව antrāwa
danger in Assamese
বিপদ bipod
danger in Nepali
धराप dharāp
danger in Pashto
خطر xatár
danger in Tagalog
panganib
danger in Arabic
خَطَر ḵaṭar
danger in Malay
bahaya
danger in Indonesian
bahaya
danger in Thai
อันตราย an-dtà-raai
danger in Vietnamese
nguy hiểm
danger in Myanmar
ဘယာ bha.ya, ဘေး bhe:, အန္တရာယ် anta.ray

Examples of danger in a sentence

  • It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.
  • She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.
  • The hostage was delivered from her captors and thus preserved from any danger.

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Antonyms

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Forms of danger

Noun
pluraldangers
Verb
third-person singular presentdangers
present participledangering
past participledangered
pastdangered

Plural of danger: dangers

Origin of danger

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominiārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

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Questions about danger

What does danger mean?
Danger means exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
What is danger in Hindi?
Danger in Hindi is जोखिम (jokhim), ख़तरा (xatrā), विपदा (vipdā). See Danger meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is danger?
Danger can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce danger?
Danger is pronounced /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ (UK).
What is the plural of danger?
The plural of danger is dangers.

Words near danger in the dictionary

  1. dangdut
  2. danged
  3. dangedest
  4. Dangelo
  5. Dangelong
  6. danger
  7. danger area
  8. danger areas
  9. danger in delay
  10. danger is one's middle name
  11. Danger Island

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: danger (page history and authors); धोका (Marathi) (page history and authors); ਖ਼ਤਰਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); danger (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); danger (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); धराप (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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