Danger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdeɪn.d͡ʒə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Danger is a noun meaning Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
Meaning
Exposure to likely harm; risk of death or serious injury.
More Meanings
- An instance or cause of likely serious harm.
- (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").
- (UK, derogatory) A contemptible person, especially one seen as perverted or mentally ill.
- (obsolete) Mischief.
- (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.
- (obsolete) Liability.
- (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.
Example Sentences
There's plenty of danger in the desert.
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars.
The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.
We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.
Word Forms
- dangers
- dangering
- dangered
Synonyms for danger
Depending on context, synonyms include adventure, distress, peril, jeopardy, threat, menace.
Antonyms for danger
Common opposites include safety, secureness, security.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include peril, risk, jeopardize, hazardous, dangerous, dangerously.
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