## Meanings
1. The possibility of being harmed or killed.
2. Something or someone that may cause harm.
3. The chance that something bad or unwanted will happen.

## Examples
- The firefighters put their lives in danger to save the family.
- Driving too fast is a danger to other people.
- There is a real danger that prices will rise again.

## Synonyms
- adventure
- distress
- hazard
- jeopardy
- menace
- peril
- threat

## Antonyms
- safety
- secureness
- security

## Derived Forms
- danger-signal
- dangerful
- dangerless
- dangerman
- dangersome
- indanger

## Related Forms
- chanciness
- dame
- dangerous
- domain
- dungeon
- endanger
- instability
- plight
- precariousness
- precarity
- risk
- riskiness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *demh₂-
- Root: daunger
- Root: dangier
- Root: *dominārium
- Root: dominus

## Etymology
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 *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.

## AI Etymology
danger comes 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 *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-, Middle English daunger, Old French dangier, la-vul *dominārium, Latin dominus. Current senses include The possibility of being harmed or killed and Something or someone that may cause harm. English relatives and later formations include danger-signal, dangerful, dangerless, chanciness, dame.

## Topics
- Safety & Risk

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