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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DANGER, n. Peril; risk; hazard; exposure to injury, loss, pain or other evil.
Our craft is in danger to be set at nought. Acts 19.
It is easy to boast of despising death, when there
is no danger.
DANGER, v.t. To put in hazard; to expose to loss or injury.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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, danger]
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"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English daunger, from Anglo-French dangier, dongier, from Vulgar Latin *dominiarium, from Latin dominium ownership Date: 13th century 1. a. archaic jurisdiction b. obsolete reach, range 2. obsolete harm, damage 3. exposure or liability to injury, pain, harm, or loss <a place where children could play without danger> 4. a case or cause of danger <the dangers of mining> II. transitive verb Date: 14th century archaic endanger

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 liability or exposure to harm. 2 a thing that causes or is likely to cause harm. 3 the status of a railway signal directing a halt or caution. Phrases and idioms: danger list a list of those dangerously ill, esp. in a hospital. danger money extra payment for dangerous work. in danger of likely to incur or to suffer from. Etymology: earlier sense 'jurisdiction, power': ME f. OF dangier ult. f. L dominus lord

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Danger Dan"ger, v. t. To endanger. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Danger Dan"ger, n. [OE. danger, daunger, power, arrogance, refusal, difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier (with same meaning), F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. dominium power, property. See Dungeon, Domain, Dame.] 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. [Obs.] In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. --Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty. [Obs.] See In one's danger, below. You stand within his danger, do you not? --Shak. Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity. 4. Difficulty; sparingness. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. Coyness; disdainful behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer. In one's danger, in one's power; liable to a penalty to be inflicted by him. [Obs.] This sense is retained in the proverb, ``Out of debt out of danger.'' Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not. --Robynson (More's Utopia). To do danger, to cause danger. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: Peril; hazard; risk; jeopardy. Usage: Danger, Peril, Hazard, Risk, Jeopardy. Danger is the generic term, and implies some contingent evil in prospect. Peril is instant or impending danger; as, in peril of one's life. Hazard arises from something fortuitous or beyond our control; as, the hazard of the seas. Risk is doubtful or uncertain danger, often incurred voluntarily; as, to risk an engagement. Jeopardy is extreme danger. Danger of a contagious disease; the perils of shipwreck; the hazards of speculation; the risk of daring enterprises; a life brought into jeopardy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dangers) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Danger is the possibility that someone may be harmed or killed. My friends endured tremendous danger in order to help me... His life could be in danger. ? safety N-UNCOUNT 2. A danger is something or someone that can hurt or harm you. ...the dangers of smoking... Britain's roads are a danger to cyclists... = threat N-COUNT: usu N of -ing/n, N to n 3. If there is a danger that something unpleasant will happen, it is possible that it will happen. There is a real danger that some people will no longer be able to afford insurance... If there is a danger of famine, we should help. N-SING: also no det, N that, N of n/-ing 4. If someone who has been seriously ill is out of danger, they are still ill, but they are not expected to die. PHRASE: v-link PHR

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

dan'-jer: Danger does not express a state of reality but a possibility. In Mt 5:21 f, however, and also the King James Version Mr 3:29 (the Revised Version (British and American)) "but is guilty of an eternal sin"the expression "danger" refers to a certainty, for the danger spoken of is in one case judgment which one brings upon himself, and in the other the committing of an unpardonable sin. Both are the necessary consequences of a man's conduct. The reason for translating the Greek (enochos, literally, "to be held in anything so one cannot escape") by "is in danger," instead of "guilty" or "liable," may be due to the translator's conception of these passages as a warning against such an act rather than as a statement of the judgment which stands pronounced over every man who commits the sin.

A. L. Breslich

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, venture.

Moby Thesaurus

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